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IT'S THE 1930'S ALL OVER AGAIN
Post Date: 2007-07-28 04:13:11 by Uncle Bill
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It's the 1930s All Over Again Lewrockwell.com Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. July 28, 2007 Jittery stock markets, an economy drunk on credit, and politicians calling for varieties of dictatorship: what a sense of déjà vu! Let us recall that the world went bonkers for about ten years way back when. The stock market crashed in 1929, thanks to the Federal Reserve, and with it fell the last remnants of the old liberal ideology that government should leave society and economy alone to flourish. After the federal Great Depression hit, there was a general air in the United States and Europe that freedom hadn't worked. What we needed were strong leaders to manage and plan ...
Report details US refusals of foreign aid after Katrina
Post Date: 2007-07-27 23:49:49 by robin
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A new report reveals the US government turned down offers of help from across the globe in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, telling one diplomat "human assistance of any kind is not on our priorities list." The report from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington relies on a review of 25,000 documents obtained from the State Department. The report reveals the US was interested mostly in cash assistance and materials, rather than direct aid from foreign relief workers and doctors, after Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast in 2005. "A review of the State Department documents reveals distressing ineptitude," CREW's executive director Melanie Sloan said in a ...
Dark powers, the sequel
Post Date: 2007-07-27 23:42:25 by robin
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Dark powers, the sequel The president's recent executive order allows the CIA to detain anyone the agency thinks is a terrorist -- or a terrorist's kid. By Rosa Brooks July 27, 2007 'We ... have to work the dark side, if you will," Vice President Dick Cheney told NBC's Tim Russert, five days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. "We've got to spend time in the shadows using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies That's the world [terrorists] operate in, and so it's going to be vital for us to use any means at our disposal " It was an odd thing to say. Throughout our history -- from John Winthrop's 1630 ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: "The inability of the colonists to get power to issue their own money permanently out of the hands of George III and the international bankers was the PRIME reason for the Revolutionary War."
Post Date: 2007-07-27 17:10:24 by Uncle Bill
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"In one year, the conditions were so reversed that the era of prosperity ended, and a depression set in, to such an extent that the streets of the Colonies were filled with unemployed."Benjamin Franklin "The colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away from the colonies their money, which created unemployment and dissatisfaction. The inability of the colonists to get power to issue their own money permanently out of the hands of George III and the international bankers was the PRIME reason for the Revolutionary War."Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin's autobiography. During a visit to ...
Flag-defiling charge ends in fight, arrests
Post Date: 2007-07-27 13:37:09 by Red Jones
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Flag-defiling charge ends in fight, arrests Mike McWilliams July 26, 2007 12:15 am A couple who said they were protesting the state of the country by flying the U.S. flag upside down with signs pinned to it found themselves in jail following a scuffle with a deputy Wednesday morning. Mark and Deborah Kuhn were arrested on two counts of assault on a government employee, resisting arrest and a rarely used charge, desecrating an American flag, all misdemeanors. The Kuhns were released from custody Wednesday afternoon. “This is surreal,” Deborah Kuhn, 52, said moments after her son Mark Stidham paid $1,500 bond to get the couple out of jail. Arrest reports show Buncombe County ...
California State High Court Limits Seizure Of Cars Of Prostitution And Drug Suspects
Post Date: 2007-07-27 12:24:23 by Brian S
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July 27, 2007 A sharply divided California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that local governments cannot confiscate the vehicles of drivers arrested on suspicion of buying drugs or soliciting prostitutes, a decision law enforcement officials say will greatly curtail their efforts to crack down on such crimes. The ruling came against a Stockton ordinance that allowed the seizure of a vehicle immediately after the driver's arrest, but it essentially overturns the laws of more than two dozen cities from Oakland to Los Angeles. In its 4-3 decision, the court ruled that only the state can mete out punishment for drug and prostitution offenses, and that without authorization from the ...
Chairwoman Sánchez Rules Against Invocation of Executive Privilege
Post Date: 2007-07-27 11:53:42 by gengis gandhi
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Chairwoman Sánchez Rules Against Invocation of Executive Privilege July 19th, 2007 by Jesse Lee Today the Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law met to consider the executive privilege claims asserted by White House Counsel in response to the subpoena for the production of documents issued to Joshua Bolten, White House Chief of Staff or appropriate custodian of records. Chairwoman Linda Sánchez’s ruling: Ruling on White House Executive Privilege Claims We have received letters from White House Counsel Fred Fielding on June 28 and July 9 refusing to produce documents concerning our U.S. Attorney investigation that were called for in our June 13 ...
ACLU: U.S. Constitution in Grave Danger
Post Date: 2007-07-27 11:40:54 by ghostdogtxn
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THE FEDERAL RESERVE - GAO Audits: "Currently We Lack Audit Authority Over The Federal Reserve's Monetary Policy, Foreign Transactions, and Federal Open Market Committee Operations"
Post Date: 2007-07-27 05:48:25 by Uncle Bill
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http://archive.gao.gov/t2pbat5/150187.pdf "Currently We Lack Audit Authority Over The Federal Reserve's Monetary Policy, Foreign Transactions, and Federal Open Market Committee Operations"> FEDERAL RESERVE - PRIVATE CORPORATION Type in File Number 0042817 at The State of Delaware.
Zeitgeist
Post Date: 2007-07-26 20:56:53 by Zipporah
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Thank you for your interest in Zeitgeist. Zeitgeist was created as a not for profit expression to inspire people to start looking at the world from a more critical perspective and to understand that very often things are not what the population at large think they are. The information in Zeitgeist was established over a year long period of research and the current Source page on this site lists the sources used / referenced. Soon, an interactive transcript will be online with detailed footnotes and links. It's important to point out that there is a tendency to simply disbelieve things that are counter to our understanding, without the necessary research performed. For example, ...
From the Grave, a Senator Exposes Bloody Hands on Capitol Hill (When I hear Ron Paul, I often think of my all time favorite Senator, Wayne Morse)
Post Date: 2007-07-26 19:55:25 by Ferret Mike
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It was a chilling moment on a split-screen of history. While the Senate debated the Iraq war on Tuesday night, a long-dead senator again renounced a chronic lie about congressional options and presidential power. The Senate was in the final hours of another failure to impede the momentum of war. As the New York Times was to report, President Bush "essentially won the added time he said he needed to demonstrate that his troop buildup was succeeding." Meanwhile, inside a movie theater on the opposite coast, the thunderous voice of Senator Wayne Morse spoke to 140 people at an event organized by the activist group Sacramento for Democracy. The extraordinary senator was speaking in ...
Former (SIC) FBI Director Confirms Gonzalez is a Liar! (ACTUALLY, MUELLER STILL IS DIRECTOR)
Post Date: 2007-07-26 15:26:45 by aristeides
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Former FBI Director Confirms Gonzalez is a Liar! by roger in DE [Subscribe] Thu Jul 26, 2007 at 12:03:31 PM PDT If you're not checking out the current liveblog of the House Judiciary Committee, please check out dgaucher2's liveblog... In it you'll find former FBI Director Robert S. Mueller testifying about the visit to John Ashcroft's hospital room, where he basically backs up James Comey's version of the John Aschcroft hospital visit and states that he was willing to resign as a result of the illegal surveillance program. Please to the diary and tip drational for the following comment: Mueller confirms he was prepared to resign over warrantless wiretapping. He ...
Bipartisan Impeachment Support As Bush Breaks Disapproval Records
Post Date: 2007-07-26 11:21:46 by Brian S
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It’s official: President Bush is the most unpopular President for the longest stretch of time in American history. Keith reports on the latest poll findings confirming this sad, sad fact, and conservative Republican & former Reagan Deputy AG Bruce Fein talks about why Bush must be impeached. Download (4094) Download What makes this most recent poll incredible is the fact that Bush still has almost* two years left in office (or 544 days). Like they say in a limbo competition, “How low can he go?” Mr Fein was on Bill Moyers’ Journal a few weeks back making the most persuasive impeachment case I’ve heard thus far. Check it out.
Reviewing Michael Parenti's "Democracy For the Few"
Post Date: 2007-07-26 07:51:41 by Stephen Lendman
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Reviewing Michael Parenti's "Democracy For the Few" - by Stephen Lendman Michael Parenti is an internationally known speaker and award winning author of 20 books and hundreds of articles. He's also a noted academic having taught at a number of colleges and universities in the US and abroad. Parenti is also one of the nation's leading progressive political analysts and social critics. He strongly opposes US imperialism, the shredding of our civil liberties, decline of our social state, and the Bush Doctrine of preventive wars on the world for predatory capitalism's need for new markets, resources and cheap exploitable labor. Parenti's latest book, and subject ...
Reviewing Michael Parenti's "Democracy For the Few"
Post Date: 2007-07-26 07:51:20 by Stephen Lendman
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Reviewing Michael Parenti's "Democracy For the Few" - by Stephen Lendman Michael Parenti is an internationally known speaker and award winning author of 20 books and hundreds of articles. He's also a noted academic having taught at a number of colleges and universities in the US and abroad. Parenti is also one of the nation's leading progressive political analysts and social critics. He strongly opposes US imperialism, the shredding of our civil liberties, decline of our social state, and the Bush Doctrine of preventive wars on the world for predatory capitalism's need for new markets, resources and cheap exploitable labor. Parenti's latest book, and subject ...
IRS LOSES CHALLENGE TO PROVE TAX LIABILITY - Tommy Cryer
Post Date: 2007-07-26 02:52:05 by Uncle Bill
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IRS loses challenge to prove tax liability Lawyer is acquitted after arguing income levy lacks legal foundation The Internal Revenue Service has lost a lawyer's challenge in front of a jury to prove a constitutional foundation for the nation's income tax, and the victorious attorney now is setting his sights higher. "I think now people are beginning to realize that this has got to be the largest fraud, backed up by intimidation and extortion and by the sheer force of taking peoples property and hard-earned money without any lawful authorization whatsoever," lawyer Tom Cryer told WND just days after a jury in Louisiana acquitted him of two criminal tax counts. And ...
Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror (book review)
Post Date: 2007-07-26 00:06:17 by kiki
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Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror (Hardcover) Frederick A. O. Schwarz, Aziz Z. Huq A timely July 6, 2007 book review in the New York Times praises "Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror": "In their chilling and timely book Frederick A. O. Schwarz Jr., senior counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law, and Aziz Z. Huq, who directs the Liberty and National Security Project at the Brennan Center, argue that the Bush administration’s “monarchist claims of executive power” are “unprecedented on this side of the North Atlantic,” and that its “executive ...
Gonzales: "Not So Clear" That Waterboarding Violates Geneva Common Article 3
Post Date: 2007-07-25 23:01:00 by Zipporah
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Gonzales: "Not So Clear" That Waterboarding Violates Geneva Common Article 3By Spencer Ackerman - July 24, 2007, 1:04 PM New vistas in humanitarian law from Alberto Gonzales: Waterboarding, the process in which a detainee is forced to believe he is drowning, may not be "beyond the bounds of human decency." Senators Dick Durbin and Ted Kennedy pointed out that the executive order President Bush issued on Friday on CIA interrogations interpreting Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions specifies certain activities for outright banning due to their contravention of "human decency": sexual humiliation or the threat thereof, or religious denigration, for ...
Operation FALCON - The USA is turning into a Police State
Post Date: 2007-07-25 22:08:53 by Zipporah
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On 29th June, 1934, Chancellor Adolph Hitler, accompanied by the Schutzstaffel (SS), arrived at Wiesse, where he personally arrested the leader of the Strum Abteilung (SA), Ernnst Roehm. During the next 24 hours 200 other senior SA officers were arrested on the way to Wiesse. Many were shot as soon as they were captured but Hitler decided to pardon Roehm because of his past service to the movement. However, after much pressure from Hermann Goering and Heinrich Himmler, Hitler agreed that Roehm should die. At first Hitler insisted that Roehm should be allowed to commit suicide but, when he refused, Roehm was shot by two SS men. (Spartacus.schoolnet.co) Later, Hitler delivered a speech at ...
Senators hit Gonzales' credibility
Post Date: 2007-07-25 15:40:03 by aristeides
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Senators hit Gonzales' credibility By Jon Ward July 25, 2007 Democratic and Republican senators yesterday accused Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales of deceiving them about a top-secret domestic surveillance program and other matters, and told him that a trail of obfuscation and misleading answers has destroyed all trust in his leadership. "I do not find your testimony credible, candidly," Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, told Mr. Gonzales after a nearly four-hour oversight hearing. Mr. Specter said Judiciary Committee members would look at whether the attorney general's credibility "has been breached to ...
Gonzales may have revealed classified meeting, committed perjury
Post Date: 2007-07-25 14:38:56 by aristeides
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Gonzales may have revealed classified meeting, committed perjury Will Menaker Published: Wednesday July 25, 2007 Capitol Hill's leading daily seems to have it in for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Today's headline from yesterday's hearings? "Gonzales Digs Deeper Hole." After finishing up his latest round of testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Gonzales may have more than his credibility to lose. Wednesday's (paid-restricted) Roll Call reports the AG "may have put himself in legal jeopardy" as senators from both parties cast doubt on the veracity of his testimony. Republican Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) put it bluntly: "I do not ...
Bush in Free Fall
Post Date: 2007-07-25 14:28:55 by aristeides
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Bush in Free Fall Posted July 25, 2007 | 10:20 AM (EST) At what point will President Bush finally grasp the enormous disaster that the neoconservatives, from Vice President Dick Cheney on down, have visited upon his presidency? Or, to put it numerically, just how does a president descend from a 92 percent approval rating one month after 9/11 -- the highest of any president since modern polling began -- to the two-thirds disapproval score that has stalked him through the last year, thanks to the Iraq debacle, without getting the message? Two major polls released this week show that the vast majority of Americans grasp the salient lesson of the Iraq misadventure: "Winning" this ...
A Pair of Liberals (Bush and Cheney)
Post Date: 2007-07-25 11:14:56 by ghostdogtxn
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Imperial Assumptions Are Reaching Critical Mass
Post Date: 2007-07-25 09:16:30 by robin
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In a recent American film there is a bit of dialogue that explains the very difficult position in which Americans now find themselves. The film was "Shooter" and the motivating proposition imbedded in the drama is one that we all must begin to think about. ". . .the truth is that nothing, no matter how horrible, ever really happens without the approval of the government-over there and over here. The problem isn't in the doing-it's the people in power having to admit that they 'knew'! The prisoners are tortured at Abu Ghraib and only the underlings go to jail. Their bosses knew: we know their bosses knew but you don't say it. There is no 'head' to ...
74 y/o Vendor Arrested For 'Impeach Him' Buttons
Post Date: 2007-07-25 08:35:15 by Jethro Tull
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(CBS News) KENSINGTON, Md. A 74-year-old retired mathematician who sells anti-Bush buttons at a Maryland farmers' market has become a symbol of free speech to some people. Others say Alan McConnell is a nuisance.McConnell was at the market in Kensington as usual yesterday, selling buttons that say "Impeach Him" He has sold the $1 buttons for months; he told The Washington Post he uses the money earned to pay for "Impeach Them Both" yard signs.Town officials had previously warned McConnell about peddling his political wares at the market (he is accused of being "aggressive" in his pitch), and had cited him for selling merchandise without a proper ...
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