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Trans America: A proposed multi-modal transportation system could leave Oklahoma stuck in the middle
Post Date: 2007-08-18 16:12:21 by Zipporah
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Trans America Are an international super highway and a North American Union on the horizon?A proposed multi-modal transportation system could leave Oklahoma stuck in the middle BY BRIAN ERVIN It no doubt seemed like any other day at the state Capitol recently while an apparently unremarkable exchange took place within a fourth-floor conference room over a seemingly innocuous piece of legislation. When passers-by glanced through the glass walls at the suit-and-tie-clad lawmakers and lobbyists deliberating over pie charts and policies, they likely didn't distinguish the event as anything other than the business-as-usual palavers that go on every day beneath the vaulted dome of ...
Padilla Case a Source of Deep Shame for America
Post Date: 2007-08-18 05:57:24 by Ada
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The news story in the New York Times actually painted the conviction Thursday of terrorism suspect Jose Padilla as "a significant victory for the Bush administration." The L.A. Times suggested something rather similar. It was far from that. If anything, it was a repudiation of the way the administration handled his case. But that doesn’t begin to capture the deep shame (or anger) Americans should feel at the way the government handled the case. It’s something of a textbook illustration of how war, declared or undeclared, as Robert Higgs explained in detail in his classic book, Crisis and Leviathan, not only leads to government bloat, but to undermining the kinds of ...
CELL PHONE (FBI can listen to you when phone is turned off)
Post Date: 2007-08-18 00:05:23 by robin
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Jose Padilla's Attorney Calls Guilty Verdict "Huge Tragedy", Vows Appeal
Post Date: 2007-08-17 19:49:43 by Zipporah
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Watch:Jose Padilla's Attorney Calls Guilty Verdict "Huge Tragedy", Vows Appeal Jose Padilla has been convicted in one of the most closely watched trials since the Sept. 11 attacks. On Thursday, a Miami jury found Padilla and two co-defendants guilty of conspiracy to commit murder in Bosnia, Kosovo and Chechnya and providing material support toward that goal. Padilla was initially declared an “enemy combatant” for allegedly plotting to set off a radioactive dirty bomb inside the United States. He was stripped of all rights, transferred to a Navy brig in South Carolina and held in extreme isolation for 43 months. The Bush administration denied him access to an ...
How lawyer navigates sea of secrecy in bizarre case
Post Date: 2007-08-17 19:44:46 by Zipporah
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How lawyer navigates sea of secrecy in bizarre case Among the obstacles: responding to a filing he can't see and writing a brief with none of his notes at hand. By Henry Weinstein, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer August 15, 2007 SAN FRANCISCO — Oakland lawyer Jon Eisenberg calls the case of Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation v. George W. Bush the strangest he has ever handled. How strange? Eisenberg was required to write one of his briefs in a windowless government office, without notes or lawbooks, under the watchful eye of two federal security guards. When he got hungry, one of the guards brought him a banana. ...
Homeland Security Enlists Clergy to Quell Public Unrest if Martial Law Ever Declared
Post Date: 2007-08-17 19:22:33 by Zipporah
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Homeland Security Enlists Clergy to Quell Public Unrest if Martial Law Ever Declaredvar wn_last_ed_date = getLEDate("Aug 15, 2007 7:07 PM EST"); document.write(wn_last_ed_date);Aug 15, 2007 07:07 PM Clergy to Help Government During Martial Law if (document.layers) {document.write(''); document.close();}coreAdsCreate('wnsz_20', 'loc', '100'); Could martial law ever become a reality in America? Some fear any nuclear, biological or chemical attack on U.S. soil might trigger just that. KSLA News 12 has discovered that the clergy would help the government with potentially their biggest problem: Us. Charleton Heston's now-famous speech before ...
Federal ID plan raises privacy concerns (Fed ID to picnic in national parks?)
Post Date: 2007-08-17 18:52:59 by Zipporah
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CNN) -- Americans may need passports to board domestic flights or to picnic in a national park next year if they live in one of the states defying the federal Real ID Act. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says there are no plans for a federal database of drivers' information. The act, signed in 2005 as part of an emergency military spending and tsunami relief bill, aims to weave driver's licenses and state ID cards into a sort of national identification system by May 2008. The law sets baseline criteria for how driver's licenses will be issued and what information they must contain. ...
Domestic Spying: Bush Appointees Revolt
Post Date: 2007-08-17 11:59:08 by aristeides
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Domestic Spying: Bush Appointees Revolt They were loyal conservatives, and Bush appointees. They fought a quiet battle to rein in the president's power in the war on terror. And they paid a price for it. A NEWSWEEK investigation. By Daniel Klaidman, Stuart Taylor Jr. and Evan Thomas Feb. 6, 2006 issue - James Comey, a lanky, 6-foot-8 former prosecutor who looks a little like Jimmy Stewart, resigned as deputy attorney general in the summer of 2005. The press and public hardly noticed. Comey's farewell speech, delivered in the Great Hall of the Justice Department, contained all the predictable, if heartfelt, appreciations. But mixed in among the platitudes was an unusual passage. ...
New Guantanamo Whistleblowers Emerge
Post Date: 2007-08-17 06:45:10 by Ada
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Backing Up Lt. Co. Abraham In June, when Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, an Army reservist with 26 years’ experience in military intelligence, stepped forward to complain, in the case of a Kuwaiti detainee in Guantánamo, Fawzi al-Odah, that the entire process of confirming the detainees’ status as “enemy combatants” (in the Combatant Status Review Tribunals) was severely flawed, often relying on “generic” evidence and designed solely to rubber-stamp the detainees’ prior designation as “enemy combatants,” he was feted as a hero by lawyers representing the detainees, by human rights organizations, and, refreshingly, by numerous newspapers ...
Backspin for War: The Convenience of Denial
Post Date: 2007-08-17 06:39:02 by Ada
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The man who ran CNN's news operation during the invasion of Iraq is now doing damage control in response to a new documentary's evidence that he kowtowed to the Pentagon on behalf of the cable network. His current denial says a lot about how "liberal media" outlets remain deeply embedded in the mindsets of pro-military conformity. Days ago, the former CNN executive publicly defended himself against a portion of the War Made Easy film (based on my book of the same name) that has drawn much comment from viewers since the documentary's release earlier this summer. As Inter Press Service reported, the movie shows "a news clip of Eason Jordan, a CNN News chief ...
The Padilla Precedent
Post Date: 2007-08-17 05:50:54 by Ada
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"From this point on, you will enjoy no privileges of rank... no privileges of person. From now on, I will refer to you only as 'human.' You have no other identity."
I have no way of knowing whether that pronouncement, or something very much like it, was uttered by José Padilla's captors after he was taken into military custody five years ago. But it certainly summarizes the Bush Regime's view of Padilla, an American citizen (however disreputable) who has been stripped of all legal protection, not only of his due process rights but also of the basic integrity of his person.
Padilla, we were told in 2002, was the key operative in an al-Qaeda plot to detonate a radiological bomb. The ...
U.S. Government To Pay $80,000 Settlement To Pair Arrested For Wearing Anti-Bush T-shirts
Post Date: 2007-08-16 22:35:16 by Brian S
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CHARLESTON, West Virginia: A couple arrested at a rally after refusing to cover T-shirts that bore anti-President George W. Bush slogans settled their lawsuit against the federal government for $80,000 (€60,000), the American Civil Liberties Union announced. Nicole and Jeffery Rank of Corpus Christi, Texas, were handcuffed and removed from the July 4, 2004, rally at the state Capitol, where Bush gave a speech. A judge dismissed trespassing charges against them, and an order closing the case was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Charleston. "This settlement is a real victory not only for our clients but for the First Amendment," said Andrew Schneider, executive ...
CIA, FBI computers used for Wikipedia edits
Post Date: 2007-08-16 20:26:06 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People using CIA and FBI computers have edited entries in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia on topics including the Iraq war and the Guantanamo prison, according to a new tracing program. The changes may violate Wikipedia's conflict-of-interest guidelines, a spokeswoman for the site said on Thursday. The program, WikiScanner, was developed by Virgil Griffith of the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico and posted this month on a Web site that was quickly overwhelmed with searches. The program allows users to track the source of computers used to make changes to the popular Internet encyclopedia where anyone can submit and edit entries. WikiScanner revealed that CIA ...
Notes Describe Frail, Upset AG Ashcroft
Post Date: 2007-08-16 20:20:22 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House demanded in 2004 that the Justice Department approve a secret national security program without allowing the ailing attorney general, "feeble, barely articulate, clearly stressed," to discuss the matter with top advisers, according to the FBI director's personal notes. The partially censored notes from FBI chief Robert S. Mueller, dated March 12, 2004, describe a distraught and feeble Attorney General John Ashcroft in his hospital room just moments after being visited by then-White House counsel Alberto Gonzales and Andy Card, the president's chief of staff at the time. Mueller's account backs up earlier descriptions of the dispute ...
New airport agents check for danger in fliers' facial expressions
Post Date: 2007-08-16 19:40:31 by Zipporah
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New airport agents check for danger in fliers' facial expressionsBy Kaitlin Dirrig | McClatchy Newspapers Posted on Tue, August 14, 2007 email | print tool nameclose tool goes here WASHINGTON — Next time you go to the airport, there may be more eyes on you than you notice. Specially trained security personnel are watching body language and facial cues of passengers for signs of bad intentions. The watcher could be the attendant who hands you the tray for your laptop or the one standing behind the ticket-checker. Or the one next to the curbside baggage attendant.They're called Behavior Detection Officers, and they're part of several recent security ...
DARPA: Radar Bankshots for All-City Surveillance
Post Date: 2007-08-16 19:38:08 by Zipporah
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Radar Bankshots for All-City Surveillance By Noah Shachtman August 13, 2007 | 3:47:00 PMCategories: You can run... Nicholas Weaver is a researcher at the International Computer Science Institute in California. Radars -- especially a high frequency ones -- are very precise. But they can't see around walls and buildings. Which means if your radar is in a plane looking down into a city, you actually can't see all that much -- buildings hide most of the good stuff. A radar beam doesn't just reflect off objects, though. It can also scatter, bouncing around the landscape before returning to the radar (or a separate sensor). Normally, this "multipathing," as its called, ...
NSA Judge: 'I feel like I'm in Alice and Wonderland'
Post Date: 2007-08-16 19:35:21 by Zipporah
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NSA Judge: 'I feel like I'm in Alice and Wonderland' By Kevin Poulsen August 15, 2007 | 6:33:00 PMCategories: NSARyan Singel and David Kravets are blogging the U.S. 9th Circuit hearing on the NSA's spying, and AT&T's alleged complicity, reporting live from the San Francisco courthouse. Hit 'refresh' in your browser and scroll to the bottom for updates. Spectators lined up outside the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco starting at noon to guarantee a seat at a much-anticipated legal showdown over the government's secret wiretapping program. The hearing involves two cases: one aimed at AT&T for allegedly helping the government with a ...
Homeland Security exploring mass-scanning system
Post Date: 2007-08-16 16:05:11 by freepatriot32
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WASHINGTON - Can technology identify someone thinking about committing a terrorist attack? The Department of Homeland Security is exploring that possibility. Last month, it queried researchers about designing a system that would detect deceptive behavior by flagging physiological and behavioral cues such as heartbeat, respiration and facial expression, using thermal imaging, infrared cameras and audio and eye-tracking, among other techniques. A related program, Project Hostile Intent, is exploring the use of involuntary facial and speech signals captured on video to identify people "involved in possible malicious or deceitful acts" - before they ever commit the crime. Homeland ...
Commenting on the IRS (while it's still legal)
Post Date: 2007-08-16 14:12:59 by Pinguinite
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The title isn't factitious. The IRS/DOJ is seeking among other things to prohibit the Save-a-Patriot Fellowship and it's members from speaking out about the IRS and I'm a member. This is being done in the form of a civil injunction which is presently being litigated. Among the terms sought by the IRS is a prohibition of dispensing any kind of information in any form that might pursuade people to break any internal revenue laws, or selling any information about the IRS that basically just makes them look bad. As of this writing the injunction is not in place. I do not have any kind of tax license and I've never advised anyone not to file tax returns. So far as I know SAPF ...
Feds Train Clergy To "Quell Dissent" During Martial Law
Post Date: 2007-08-16 12:14:12 by Eoghan
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A shocking KSLA news report has confirmed the story we first broke last year, that Clergy Response Teams are being trained by the federal government to "quell dissent" and pacify citizens to obey the government in the event of a declaration of martial law. In May 2006, we exposed the existence of a nationwide FEMA program which is training Pastors and other religious representatives to become secret police enforcers who teach their congregations to "obey the government" in preparation for the implementation of martial law, property and firearm seizures, mass vaccination programs and forced relocation. A whistleblower who was secretly enrolled into the program told us ...
If the President Does It, It's Not Illegal?
Post Date: 2007-08-16 11:41:18 by ghostdogtxn
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Bush Administration Says Warrantless Eavesdropping Cannot Be Questioned
Post Date: 2007-08-15 21:42:55 by kiki
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The Bush administration said Monday the constitutionality of its warrantless electronic eavesdropping program cannot be challenged. The government is taking that position in seeking the dismissal of federal court lawsuits against the government and AT&T over its alleged involvement in the once-secret surveillance program adopted after the Sept. 11 terror attacks. The strategy was first recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court in a McCarthy-era lawsuit. It has been increasingly invoked in a bid to shield the government from legal scrutiny. Two senior Justice Department officials, speaking on condition of anonymity in a teleconference with reporters, reiterated the administration's ...
US anti-war group ordered to take down Iraq demo posters
Post Date: 2007-08-15 20:07:16 by Zipporah
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US anti-war group ordered to take down Iraq demo posters Wed Aug 15, 4:43 PM ET A US anti-war group has been warned it will be fined 10,000 dollars if it does not remove posters in Washington announcing a march in the capital next month against US involvement in Iraq, a spokeswoman said Wednesday. "The ANSWER Coalition has received citations from the authorities in Washington threatening to fine us 10,000 dollars unless several hundred posters announcing the September 15 march on Washington DC are removed," Sarah Sloan, the staff coordinator for the anti-war group, told AFP. "We have until Thursday to take down the posters," she said. Several hundred ...
Eustace Mullins presents: The World Order
Post Date: 2007-08-15 17:47:18 by Eoghan
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Eustace Mullins has been accused of anti-semitism by many people and groups such as the Anti-Defamation League... Here he argues that the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, drafted by German banker Paul Warburg and others in a secret meeting, defies Article 1, Section 8, Paragraph 5 of the US Constitution by creating a "central bank of issue" for the United States. Mullins goes on to claim that World War I, the Agricultural Depression of 1920, the Great Depression of 1929, and Adolf Hitler's rise to power were brought about by international banking interests in order to profit from conflict and economic instability. «
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