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After Words: Naomi Wolf author of "The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot" interviewed by Viet Dinh
Post Date: 2007-10-21 18:28:36 by Kamala
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After Words: Naomi Wolf author of "The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot" interviewed by Viet Dinh Watch now! Upcoming Schedule Sunday, October 21, at 9:00 PM Monday, October 22, at 12:00 AM About the Program In "The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot," Naomi Wolf has compiled a case against the Bush administration and Congress in what she believes are actions to reduce the civil liberties of the American populace. Ms. Wolf presents ten steps that range from the establishment of secret prisons to the restriction of the press that she argues history has shown are used to shut down free societies. Naomi Wolf discusses her book ...
TSA's crazy screener-testing: giving "bombs" to regular passengers to sneak onboard?!?
Post Date: 2007-10-21 15:38:12 by Zipporah
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TSA's crazy screener-testing: giving "bombs" to regular passengers to sneak onboard?!? Posted by Cory Doctorow, October 21, 2007 10:04 AM | permalink Bruce Schneier notes that the TSA is apparently using "plainclothes bomb-testers" who approach regular fliers and hand them fake bombs and ask them to sneak them through security to test the screening process. This is a bad idea: Someone please tell me this doesn't actually happen. "Hi Mr. Passenger. I'm a TSA manager. You know I'm not lying to you because of this official-looking laminated badge I have. We need you to help us test airport security. Here's a 'fake' bomb that ...
A Case Study in the Limits of Propaganda Shared Values Revisted
Post Date: 2007-10-21 13:35:17 by Zipporah
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A Case Study in the Limits of Propaganda Shared Values Revisited By SHELDON RAMPTON I received a request recently from a university professor who teaches a course about media literacy. She was wondering if I could help her find videos of the "Shared Values" television ads that the U.S. Department of State produced to improve the image of the United States in Muslim countries shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, so she could show them to her students. I was a bit surprised to realize that the ads are fairly hard to locate online, but after some searching, we were able to find copies. To ensure that they will remain available, I uploaded the videos to two ...
Democratic Lawmaker Pushing Immunity Is Newly Flush With Telco Cash
Post Date: 2007-10-21 12:11:51 by Zipporah
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Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia) is reportedly steering the secretive Senate Intelligence Committee to give retroactive immunity to telecoms that helped the government secretly spy on Americans. He has also recently benefited from some interesting political contributions. Top Verizon executives, including CEO Ivan Seidenberg and President Dennis Strigl, wrote personal checks to Rockefeller totaling $23,500 in March, 2007. Prior to that apparently coordinated flurry of 29 donations, only one of those executives had ever donated to Rockefeller (at least while working for Verizon). In fact, prior to 2007, contributions to Rockefeller from company executives at AT&T and Verizon ...
FBI working to bolster Al Qaeda cases
Post Date: 2007-10-21 09:15:44 by Zipporah
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FBI working to bolster Al Qaeda cases Shawn Thew / EPAA soldier stands guard in a tower overlooking Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The U.S. is concerned that evidence obtained from CIA interrogations will be inadmissible at war-crimes tribunals. By Josh Meyer, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer October 21, 2007 WASHINGTON -- The FBI is quietly reconstructing the cases against Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and 14 other accused Al Qaeda leaders being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, spurred in part by U.S. concerns that years of CIA interrogation have yielded evidence that is inadmissible or too controversial to present at their upcoming war crimes tribunals, government officials ...
U.S. asks court to dismiss lawsuit on secret flights
Post Date: 2007-10-21 09:01:47 by Zipporah
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Fri Oct 19, 2007 9:03 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The U.S. government asked a federal court late on Friday to dismiss a lawsuit against a unit of Boeing Co that charges the firm helped fly suspects abroad to secret prisons. "Allowing plaintiffs' claims to proceed would risk the disclosure of highly classified information concerning the alleged 'intelligence activities, sources, and methods' of the CIA," said the filing, signed by Acting Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Bucholtz. The American Civil Liberties Union first filed a complaint in May accusing Jeppesen Dataplan Inc of providing flight and logistical support to at least 15 aircraft on 70 ...
Labi Siffre - Something Inside So Strong
Post Date: 2007-10-21 01:35:35 by Zipporah
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The Fallacy of Democracy
Post Date: 2007-10-20 18:47:53 by Zipporah
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Poster Comment:This is what our country is coming to. Remember what it was founded upon, and you will see that the direction we are going is not only one that is unjust, but a path that ends in self destruction.
Ex-Prosecutor Alleges Pentagon Plays Politics Pressure for 'Sexy' Guantanamo Hearings
Post Date: 2007-10-20 15:08:33 by Zipporah
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Ex-Prosecutor Alleges Pentagon Plays PoliticsPressure for 'Sexy' Guantanamo HearingsBy Josh WhiteWashington Post Staff WriterSaturday, October 20, 2007; A03Politically motivated officials at the Pentagon have pushed for convictions of high-profile detainees ahead of the 2008 elections, the former lead prosecutor for terrorism trials at Guantanamo Bay said last night, adding that the pressure played a part in his decision to resign earlier this month.Senior defense officials discussed in a September 2006 meeting the "strategic political value" of putting some prominent detainees on trial, said Air Force Col. Morris Davis. He said that he felt pressure to pursue cases that ...
Scarborough: '90% of Americans' would approve waterboarding
Post Date: 2007-10-19 21:11:47 by Zipporah
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MSNBC host Joe Scarborough says that the controversial interrogation tactic known as waterboarding -- a method of simulated drowning used by interrogators to extract information from subjects -- is an effective practice that most Americans would overwhelmingly approve of if asked. In a discussion about US Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey's refusal to rule out waterboarding as a method of gathering intelligence during confirmation hearings this week, Scarborough said the technique had achieved proven results. "For those who don't know, waterboarding is what we did to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is the Al Qaeda number two guy that planned 9/11. And he talked," ...
New Hampshire RFID Study Commission Sees Chipping Kids and Corpses as Acceptable
Post Date: 2007-10-19 19:18:39 by intotheabyss
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Dr. Katherine Albrecht argued for implant restrictions, but was overridden by industry.
CONCORD, NH: The NEW HAMPSHIRE RFID STUDY COMMISSION yesterday voted in support of language that would allow guardians and parents to implant RFID microchips into children. The Study Commission was created when the state Senate killed a bill which would have required labeling on all products containing RFID-tagged products in NH and is comprised of lawmakers, industry and retail representatives, as well as members of the public and state law enforcement officials.
Dr. Katherine Albrecht, who will be speaking on RFID at the Hope for America Conference in Tempe, AZ on December 8th [conference site- ...
Sheriff's deputies arrest 'New Times' owners Paper at odds with county authorities
Post Date: 2007-10-19 18:52:54 by Zipporah
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Sheriff's deputies arrest 'New Times' ownersPaper at odds with county authoritiesMichael Kiefer, Robert Anglen and JJ Hensley The Arizona Republic Oct. 19, 2007 10:50 AM enlarge imageMichael Lacey, an owner of the Phoenix New Times was arrested Thursday night by Maricopa County sheriff's deputies along with Jim Larkin on charges of revealing grand jury information, a misdemeanor. Phoenix New Times owners Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin were arrested Thursday night by Maricopa County sheriff's deputies on charges of revealing grand jury information, a misdemeanor. The charges stem from a story published under their byline in the Thursday edition of New Times, in which ...
Man appeals conviction for standing in Times Square
Post Date: 2007-10-19 18:47:14 by Zipporah
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Man appeals conviction for standing in Times Square Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, October 19, 2007 9:39 AM | permalink In June of 2004 Matthew Jones of Brooklyn was standing in Times Square, talking with friends. Police arrested him for it. More than three years later, he is fighting the charge. In the prosecution’s view, it appears, the innocent do not dawdle. According to the original complaint against Mr. Jones, the officer “observed defendant along with a number of other individuals standing around” on a public sidewalk in June 2004. Mr. Jones was “not moving, and that as a result of defendants’ behavior, numerous pedestrians in the area had to ...
Rocky Road Ahead For Senate's Gift Of Telecom Immunity
Post Date: 2007-10-19 11:06:45 by Brian S
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A Senate committee advanced a bipartisan piece of legislation that would grant telecommunications companies legal immunity for their cooperation with President Bush's warrantless wiretapping program, but lawmakers are expecting at least another month of battle over the scope of the administration's surveillance authority. The Senate Intelligence Committee spent nearly five hours Thursday hammering out the parameters of their proposal to update the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Although the bill emerged from the committee on a 13-2 vote, it contains at least one amendment unacceptable to the Bush administration, and one of the Senate's Democratic presidential candidates ...
Attorney General Nominee Mukasey: Bush's Powers Might Be Above The Law
Post Date: 2007-10-19 10:52:37 by Brian S
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Attorney general nominee's responses to anti-terrorism questions draw criticism By PHILIP SHENON WASHINGTON -- President Bush's nominee for attorney general, Michael Mukasey, declined Thursday to say if he considered harsh interrogation techniques such as waterboarding, which simulates drowning, to constitute torture or to be illegal if used on terrorism suspects. On the second day of confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Mukasey went further than he had the day before in arguing that the White House had constitutional authority to act beyond the limits of laws passed by Congress, especially when it came to questions of national defense. He suggested that ...
Paper Leaders Arrested For Story On Subpoenas
Post Date: 2007-10-19 10:40:44 by Brian S
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Executives Accused Of Violating Grand Jury Secrecy UPDATED: 7:33 am PDT October 19, 2007 MESA, Ariz. -- The leaders of an alternative newspaper chain were arrested after running a story about grand jury subpoenas they received seeking reporters' notes and information on who visits their Phoenix weekly's Web site. Michael Lacey, executive editor of Village Voice Media, and Jim Larkin, CEO of the Phoenix-based chain, were arrested at their homes Thursday, the same day their story was published in the Phoenix New Times, a free, weekly alternative paper. Capt. Paul Chagolla, a sheriff's spokesman, said Lacey and Larkin were arrested on suspicion of violating grand jury secrecy ...
Senate caves to Bush on telecom immunity
Post Date: 2007-10-19 09:10:50 by nolu_chan
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Senate caves to Bush on telecom immunity 10/18/2007 @ 8:04 am Filed by John Byrne Despite an intense lobbying effort from privacy groups, the Senate sealed an expected deal this week with President Bush to grant major telecommunications companies -- including Verizon, Comcast and AT&T -- immunity from prosecution for their role in the President's warrantless eavesdropping program if they can "demonstrate to a court that they acted pursuant to a legal directive in helping the government with surveillance in the United States." The legislation finalizes the deal between Senate Democrats and the Administration over the terms of the National Security Agency's domestic ...
Nobody ever expects the Inquisition in America
Post Date: 2007-10-18 19:31:38 by Horse
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Nobody ever expects the Inquisition in America. But an American/Brit lawyer for over 50 Guantanamo prisoners, Clive Stafford Smith, says the U.S. now uses Spanish Inquisition methods like strappado (hanging by the wrists) and reverse strappado (behind the back, which dislocates the shoulders). His new book is, on Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/3x9l4c You can stream an interview which aired this morning on Boulder's www.kgnu.org: http://kgnu.org/cgi-bin/play.m3u?show=Metro&date=2007-10-18 This is an automatically archived program, so you'll want to skip past the BBC News and the membership pledge rap to 15:45 into the show for the interview. The part about the inquisition history ...
Three Short Films on Intellectual and Health Freedom
Post Date: 2007-10-18 15:36:13 by Horse
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Indoctrinate U (2007) Speech codes. Censorship. Sensitivity training. Political conformity and rehabilitation. Intolerance. Hostility to religion. Violations of freedom of speech and conscience. Kangaroo courts. We usually associate such things with the repressive regimes of North Korea, China, Cuba, and the former Soviet Union. But instead, this assault on free thought is taking place all over America--right now--on our nation's campuses. Award-winning filmmaker Evan Coyne Maloney's new documentary film, Indoctrinate U, reveals the ugly truths about academia that you won't see in their glossy admissions brochures. Directed By: Evan Maloney, Produced By: Blaine Greenberg, ...
Democrats Dismayed by Mukasey’s Views on Executive Power
Post Date: 2007-10-18 14:59:45 by aristeides
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Democrats Dismayed by Mukasey’s Views on Executive Power By Keith Perine and Michael Sandler, CQ Staff Attorney general nominee Michael Mukasey signaled Thursday he shares the administration’s expansive view of President Bush’s authority to withhold information from Congress, skirt federal statutes and authorize harsh interrogation techniques. The retired federal judge’s statements, during the second day of his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, put him at odds with the Democrats who will decide whether Mukasey succeeds Alberto R. Gonzales as the head of the Justice Department. “I think what is being fleshed out is that he has a much ...
(SEN. CHRIS) Dodd will hold FISA bill
Post Date: 2007-10-18 14:51:25 by aristeides
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Dodd will hold FISA bill by Kagro X Thu Oct 18, 2007 at 11:29:48 AM PDT http://action.chrisdodd.com/signUp.jsp?key=1570 The Military Commissions Act. Warrantless wiretapping. Shredding of Habeas Corpus. Torture. Extraordinary Rendition. Secret Prisons. No more. I have decided to place a "hold" on the latest FISA bill that would have included amnesty for telecommunications companies that enabled the President's assault on the Constitution by illegaly providing personal information on their customers without judicial authorization. I said that I would do everything I could to stop this bill from passing, and I have. It's about delivering results -- and as I've ...
Leahy: Intel panel about to ‘cave’ on surveillance
Post Date: 2007-10-18 14:33:18 by aristeides
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Leahy: Intel panel about to ‘cave’ on surveillance By Manu Raju October 18, 2007 Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) on Thursday condemned Intelligence Committee Democrats for brokering a deal with the White House that would provide retroactive immunity for telephone companies that assisted the Bush administration’s controversial warrantless wiretapping program. At the second day of confirmation hearings for President Bush’s Attorney General-nominee Michael Mukasey, Leahy warned that “the Intelligence Committee is about to cave on this,” citing pressure from the White House and press reports suggesting the administration had gotten its ...
Maine Middle School to Offer the Pill
Post Date: 2007-10-18 09:43:03 by Zipporah
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Maine Middle School to Offer the PillThe Associated PressWednesday, October 17, 2007; 11:47 PMPORTLAND, Maine -- Pupils at a city middle school will be able to get birth control pills and patches at their student health center after the local school board approved the proposal Wednesday evening.The plan, offered by city health officials, makes King Middle School the first middle school in Maine to make a full range of contraception available to students in grades 6 through 8, according to the state Department of Health and Human Services.There are no national figures on how many middle schools, where most students range in age from 11 to 13, provide such services."It's very rare ...
Mukasey: Torture authority memo a 'mistake' Attorney General-designate repudiates president's power to violate laws
Post Date: 2007-10-18 09:00:43 by Zipporah
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Susan Walsh / APAttorney General-designate Michael Mukasey is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, prior to testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on his nomination. View related photos Mukasey: Torture authority memo a 'mistake' Attorney General-designate repudiates president's power to violate lawsThe Associated PressUpdated: 1:47 p.m. ET Oct 17, 2007< } UpdateTimeStamp('633282400237300000');WASHINGTON - Attorney General-designate Michael Mukasey said Wednesday the president doesn't have the authority to use torture techniques against terrorism suspects, a stance not taken by predecessor Alberto Gonzales and considered ...
The beginning of the end of America
Post Date: 2007-10-18 06:27:24 by IndieTX
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Poster Comment:On the death of habeas corpus, the appalling destruction of vital American rights, and how we have become, in our attempts to defeat a terrorist enemy we can't really even define or locate, just a little bit more like them.
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