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Alarm at US right to highly personal data
Post Date: 2007-07-21 20:36:47 by Eoghan
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Religion and sex life among passenger details to be passed on to officials Highly sensitive information about the religious beliefs, political opinions and even the sex life of Britons travelling to the United States is to be made available to US authorities when the European Commission agrees to a new system of checking passengers. The EC is in the final stages of agreeing a new Passenger Name Record system with the US which will allow American officials to access detailed biographical information about passengers entering international airports. The information sharing system with the US Department of Homeland Security, which updates the previous three-year-old system, is designed to ...
The Legal Pervert's Parade: Executive Privilege Über Alles
Post Date: 2007-07-21 10:46:14 by Ada
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Just in case you haven't noticed before, the United States of America has become a presidential tyranny. We've been clanging this bell here (and elsewhere) since late September 2001, and have seen it confirmed over and over through the years – with torture edicts, domestic spying, rendition, secret prisons, indefinite detention of uncharged, untried captives, etc. – and most recently and most baldly with the "Military Commissions Act," which enshrined the principle of arbitrary presidential power in law and gutted the ancient privilege of habeas corpus. This was rubberstamped by the Republican-led Congress last year – and is still standing strong under the ...
Bill Kristol, the Worst Kind of Reactionary
Post Date: 2007-07-21 07:59:19 by Kamala
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July 19, 2007 at 21:52:04 Bill Kristol, the Worst Kind of Reactionary by Timothy V. Gatto Page 1 of 1 page(s) http://www.opednews.com Sometimes the American public gets hung up on so-called “pundits” that are really just snake-oil salesmen. They are vilified and debunked because they go out on the proverbial “ledge” to try and prove their nonsensical views, and this makes them easy targets for anyone with a high school education to show them for what they are, mostly bigoted wretches that think they have something to prove and they do it by attacking the so-called “liberal intelligentsia” that they couldn’t get to notice them in high school and ...
Time for change's Journal: On the Need to Abolish our Present Government
Post Date: 2007-07-21 07:37:39 by Kamala
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Time for change's Journal: On the Need to Abolish our Present Government Posted by Time for change in General Discussion Fri Jul 20th 2007, 12:09 AM …Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends (our unalienable rights), it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government… When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same objective, evinces a design to reduce {the people} under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government… from the U.S. Declaration of Independence – July 4th, 1776 The above excerpt from our Declaration of Independence ...
Bush alters rules for CIA interrogations
Post Date: 2007-07-21 01:56:31 by Diana
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WASHINGTON - President Bush breathed new life into the CIA's terror interrogation program Friday in an executive order that would allow harsh questioning of suspects, limited in public only by a vaguely worded ban on cruel and inhuman treatment. The order bars some practices such as sexual abuse, part of an effort to quell international criticism of some of the CIA's most sensitive and debated work. It does not say what practices would be allowed. The executive order is the White House's first public effort to reach into the CIA's five-year-old terror detention program, which has been in limbo since a Supreme Court decision last year called its legal foundation into ...
Bush Executive Order: Criminalizing the Antiwar Movement
Post Date: 2007-07-20 18:00:01 by Kamala
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Bush Executive Order: Criminalizing the Antiwar Movement by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, July 20, 2007 Email this article to a friend Print this article The Executive Order entitled "Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq" provides the President with the authority to confiscate the assets of whoever opposes the US led war. A presidential Executive Order issued on July 17th, repeals with the stroke of a pen the right to dissent and to oppose the Pentagon's military agenda in Iraq. In substance, the Executive Order entitled "Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq" ...
Bush's magical shield from criminal prosecution
Post Date: 2007-07-20 15:47:37 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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The Bush administration decided to announce to Washington Post reporters Dan Eggen and Amy Goldstein its view that it has the power to block the Justice Department, and its U.S. Attorneys, from criminally prosecuting Executive Branch employees who refuse to comply with Congressional subpoenas, notwithstanding a statute enacted by the American people through their Congress requiring such prosecution where Congress issues a contempt citation. We do not know who specifically in the administration announced this obviously radical position because the Post courteously granted them a shield of anonymity to hide behind. The adminsitration's position is grounded in a 1984 Reagan administration ...
The Book on FDR We Don't Have
Post Date: 2007-07-20 09:43:05 by DeaconBenjamin
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The symbol of liberalism's complete domination over education in the United States is the absence of any academic book that is hostile to Roosevelt's domestic economic policies and his foreign policy. America's educational system has a supreme myth that serves as the foundation of American statism: "Franklin Roosevelt got America out of the Great Depression. He saved capitalism from itself." Actually, this was a joint effort. Hitler invaded Poland. Then England went to war to defend Poland, which was militarily impossible, which military strategists in Britain knew at the time. Then the British government started ordering American-made goods. Until wartime orders ...
Find Out If Your Printer is Spying on You
Post Date: 2007-07-20 09:42:20 by boonie rat
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Find Out If Your Printer is Spying on You Wed Jul 18, 2007 4:20PM EDT Did you know that many (in fact, most) color laser printers are spying on you whenever you print a document? Though you may not have heard the news, the discovery was announced in late 2005. Manufacturers embed a pattern of tiny yellow dots on printed pages. The dots are too small to be seen with the naked eye (especially since they're yellow, see the above photo to see what they actually look like), but under a microscope and blue light they're revealed. The dots are placed in a pattern unique to each printer, and since most color laser printers are purchased through well-documented service providers or direct ...
Judge Dismisses Plame Lawsuit
Post Date: 2007-07-19 15:50:20 by aristeides
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Judge Dismisses Plame Lawsuit By Carol Leonnig Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, July 19, 2007; 3:30 PM A federal judge today dismissed a lawsuit filed by former CIA officer Valerie Plame and her husband against Vice President Cheney and top administration officials over the disclosure of Plame's name and covert status to the media. U.S. District Judge John D. Bates said that Cheney and White House aides cannot be held liable for the disclosure of information about Plame in the summer of 2003 while they were trying to rebut criticism of the administration's war efforts levied by her husband, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV. The judge said such efforts were certainly ...
Valerie Plame's lawsuit dismissed: Federal Judge Dismisses Ex-CIA Operative Valerie Plame's Lawsuit Against Bush Administration
Post Date: 2007-07-19 15:46:53 by aristeides
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Valerie Plame's lawsuit dismissed Federal Judge Dismisses Ex-CIA Operative Valerie Plame's Lawsuit Against Bush Administration MATT APUZZO AP News Jul 19, 2007 15:05 EDT A federal judge on Thursday dismissed former CIA operative Valerie Plame's lawsuit against members of the Bush administration in the CIA leak scandal. Plame, the wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, had accused Vice President Dick Cheney and others of conspiring to leak her identity in 2003. Plame said that violated her privacy rights and was illegal retribution for her husband's criticism of the administration. U.S. District Judge John D. Bates dismissed the case on jurisdictional grounds and ...
The Ur-Neocon Joke
Post Date: 2007-07-19 15:35:01 by aristeides
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The Ur-Neocon Joke A reader nails it: Q. How many neocons does it take to screw in a light bulb? A. Go fuck yourself.
THE DEFENSE WILL NOT REST: Two U.S. military officers are jeopardizing their careers to protect the legal rights of those held at Guantánamo Bay. The way they see it, justice should be blind—for everyone
Post Date: 2007-07-19 15:18:43 by aristeides
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THE DEFENSE WILL NOT REST Two U.S. military officers are jeopardizing their careers to protect the legal rights of those held at Guantánamo Bay. The way they see it, justice should be blind—for everyone By Sean Flynn; Photograph by Gillian Laub William Kuebler, a navy lieutenant with clippered hair and a round face, sat in his crisp summer whites at a heavy wooden table in the courtroom at Guantánamo Bay. To his left, at the other end of the table, was a young Saudi named Ghassan Abdullah al Sharbi, who was reputed to be one of the most dangerous terrorists on the planet. Al Sharbi was about to be tried for war crimes, and Kuebler was supposed to defend him. The ...
Federal Government Kept Nuclear Accident Secret
Post Date: 2007-07-19 15:02:27 by aristeides
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Federal Government Kept Nuclear Accident Secret Details on an accidental release of highly-enriched uranium at a nuclear fuel processing plant in Tennessee were kept secret from the public and Congress by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for thirteen months. On March 6, 2006, Nuclear Fuel Services (NFS) in Erwin, TN, spilled approximately nine gallons of highly-enriched uranium. The yellow solution was noticed escaping under a doorway and into a hallway within the plant. Initially, the highly-enriched uranium accidentally spilled into a glove box, which had a well-functioning drain, and came within four feet of falling down an elevator shaft. If the solution had pooled and ...
Another Tyrannical Power Grab by Executive Order
Post Date: 2007-07-19 13:54:51 by ghostdogtxn
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Russia's New Dissidents Defend Human Rights
Post Date: 2007-07-19 11:03:51 by ghostdogtxn
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The Militarization and Annexation of North America
Post Date: 2007-07-19 07:24:25 by Stephen Lendman
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The Militarization and Annexation of North America - by Stephen Lendman Besides the Bush administration's imperial aims and permanent war on the world, add the one at home below the radar. Its weapons include the WTO, NAFTA, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), FBI, CIA, NSA, NORTHCOM, militarized state and local police, National Guard forces, paramilitary mercenaries like Blackwater USA, and all other repressive instruments of state power and control. They target the people of three nations slowly becoming one headquartered in Washington. That's the apparent aim of those in power here wanting one continent, "indivisible" minus old-fashioned ideas like "liberty and ...
Removal of banner, activist protested
Post Date: 2007-07-18 17:44:52 by Eoghan
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Richmond police and parks officials are in trouble with the ACLU of Virginia for removing a woman from a Fourth of July event in Byrd Park for carrying a political banner. Rain Burroughs, who said she was driven to a different area of the sprawling park and held in a police cruiser with her 7-yearold daughter until the fireworks display ended, was not charged with any crime. Police said they removed her from the Dogwood Dell area at the request of city parks employees. A parks official said the banner, which made an indirect reference to the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney, disrupted the patriotic theme of the concert at Dogwood Dell and the fireworks. "This has problems ...
NEW WORLD ORDER - From The Mouths Of The Elite
Post Date: 2007-07-17 23:16:35 by Uncle Bill
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NEW WORLD ORDER FROM THE MOUTHS OF THE ELITE The Drug-Trafficking Presidents THE BEST OF FRIENDS The Best of FriendsNew World Order From The Mouths of The EliteGeorge H.W. Bush - New World OrderBill Clinton - New World OrderHillary Clinton - New World OrderGeorge W. Bush - New World OrderHenry Kissinger - New World OrderStrobe Talbot - New World OrderEurope - New World OrderNorth American Union - Dobbs Note: NAU - George W. Bush Note: NAU - George W. Bush Note: George W. Bush - Skull and BonesRare year 1982 video with G. Edward Griffin & Norman DoddsRoss Perot 1992Ross Perot - NAFTARoss Perot - Health Care
Out of Control: Executive Power Plays
Post Date: 2007-07-17 16:06:31 by aristeides
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Out of Control Executive Power Plays By MARJORIE COHN Our Founding Fathers created three separate but co-equal branches of government to check and balance each other so no one branch would become all powerful. Indeed, James Madison wrote in the Federalist Papers, "The preservation of liberty requires that the three great departments of power should be separate and distinct." Madison warned, "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary in the same hands ... may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." The American colonists were reacting against a police state. More than 200 years later, we have another King George. In the last ...
Rorschach and Awe (U.S. TORTURE REVERSE ENGINEERED BY 2 CIA PSYCHOLOGISTS)
Post Date: 2007-07-17 15:48:18 by aristeides
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Rorschach and Awe America's coercive interrogation methods were reverse-engineered by two C.I.A. psychologists who had spent their careers training U.S. soldiers to endure Communist-style torture techniques. The spread of these tactics was fueled by a myth about a critical "black site" operation. by Katherine Eban VF.COM EXCLUSIVE July 17, 2007 Abu Zubaydah was a mess. It was early April 2002, and the al-Qaeda lieutenant had been shot in the groin during a firefight in Pakistan, then captured by the Special Forces and flown to a safe house in Thailand. Now he was experiencing life as America's first high-value detainee in the wake of 9/11. A medical team and a cluster ...
Psychologists and Torture
Post Date: 2007-07-17 15:31:57 by aristeides
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Psychologists and Torture A new report in Vanity Fair documents more about this administration's authorization of torture as its main tool in intelligence-gathering in the war on terror. Among the facts that are becoming clearer is the cooptation of the psychological profession to craft, monitor and adjust torture techniques for detainees. Some in the professional psychological and psychiatric community are raising hell. Money quote from a press release from Physicians For Human Rights today: "The indisputable evidence disclosed today that the US government, with the assistance of psychologists, was engaged in psychological torture tactics for the CIA is as morally reprehensible ...
The Messianic Maniac (ANDREW SULLIVAN ON BUSH)
Post Date: 2007-07-17 15:13:36 by aristeides
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The Messianic Maniac It's more disturbing in a way than MoDo's fantasies or Frank Rich's tragedies. After four years of mounting, centrifugal chaos in a country he invaded on false pretenses, with no plan for victory, Bush is still "empowered" by a sense of religious mission and the aphrodisiac of the appearance of power. If you need any more convincing that Bush isn't merely not a conservative, but a tragi-comic version of what conservatism has long opposed, then read David Brooks's column (alas, it's TimesDelete). Here's a direct quote from the Decider himself: "It's more of a theological perspective. I do believe there is an Almighty, and ...
Arrest raises questions of when it's OK for officers to ask for ID; men considering lawsuit
Post Date: 2007-07-17 07:38:30 by Kamala
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Sunday, July 15 2007 Arrest raises questions of when it's OK for officers to ask for ID; men considering lawsuit By Deb McKee The Tribune-Star WEST TERRE HAUTE — Two men walking across the nation to protest the Iraq war say police officers in West Terre Haute violated their constitutional rights last week when one of the men was arrested for failing to produce identification. Police say the request for identification was legitimate, and the arrest lawful. For nearly four months, Raymond Schwab, 32, of Loveland, Colo., and Elliott Nesch, 22, of Fort Collins, Colo. — Brother Raymond and Brother Elliott, to their followers — have been walking from Denver on their way ...
Why They Won't Impeach
Post Date: 2007-07-17 07:10:00 by Ada
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Why do the Democrats, with control of both the House and Senate since last year’s elections, continue to twiddle their thumbs over the policies and practices of a corrupt president. Yes, they did spearhead a bill through the House that requires a withdrawal of troops from Iraq by April, 2008, a measure that media propagandists dutifully offered as having some significance. But those who take the time to carefully read legislation realize that this was but another empty, cynical gesture; the latest expression of “bipartisan” meaninglessness designed solely to placate an increasingly disgruntled booboisie. Even in the unlikelihood of the bill being signed by the president – assuming a ...
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