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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
In Reversal, Supreme Court to Hear Guantanamo Bay Detainee Cases
Post Date: 2007-06-29 11:08:47 by Brian S
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June 29, 2007 · The Supreme Court will review whether Guantanamo Bay detainees may go to federal court to challenge their indefinite confinement, in a reversal of the court's previously stated opinion. In April, the court denied the same appeals by the prisoners held by the United States in Cuba, but the justices, in a brief order, said they would hear and decide the two cases during the court's term that starts in October. The action, announced without comment along with other end-of-term orders, is a setback for the Bush administration. It had argued that a new law strips courts of their jurisdiction to hear detainee cases. In April, the court turned down an identical ...
Thanks for Dick Cheney
Post Date: 2007-06-28 17:26:54 by statusquobuster
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Thanks for Dick Cheney Joel S. Hirschhorn When someone in high elected office shows the nation how vulnerable our Constitution is, we should be thankful for the wakeup call. Like many ruthless dictators, evil kings, and monster generals, Dick Cheney is the leading practitioner of the ends-justify-the-means mentality, where only his vision of the desired ends counts. And if this means disregarding and disobeying the Constitution, torturing prisoners, killing thousands of American soldiers, disrespecting Congress, destroying our environment, embracing the invasion of illegal immigrants, increasing out national debt, and disregarding the will of the vast majority of Americans, so be it. ...
Reaction to High Court's school ruling
Post Date: 2007-06-28 16:37:19 by Tauzero
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Reaction to High Court's school ruling By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Some reaction to the Supreme Court decision Thursday rejecting school integration plans in Louisville, Ky., and Seattle: --- "I believed so much in what we are doing, I just felt we had to win. The goal here is to make sure all kids have access to great schools." - Kathleen Brose, president of Parents Involved in Community Schools, who sued the Seattle school district after her daughter failed to get into a highly regarded high school. --- "I'm confident the Jefferson County Public Schools leadership team will develop new guidelines for student assignment that will continue this community's ...
'You Have No Rights: Stories of America in an Age of Repression'
Post Date: 2007-06-28 15:31:12 by kiki
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Book: 'You Have No Rights: Stories of America in an Age of Repression' by Matthew Rothschild -- Book review by Thom Hartmann of THOM HARTMANN'S "INDEPENDENT THINKER" BOOK OF THE MONTH REVIEW (Thom Hartmann is a New York Times bestselling author and the host of The Thom Hartmann Program syndicated nationally by Air America Radio. His website is http://ThomHartmann.com.) I'm a pretty jaded guy. Back in October of 2001, I wrote -- first anonymously under the pseudonym "Rusticus" and then over my own name -- the first widely-circulated article comparing the Republican response to 9/11 with the Nazi response to the burning of the Reichstag (Parliament) ...
Buffett blasts system that lets him pay less tax than secretary
Post Date: 2007-06-28 14:54:34 by robin
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Warren Buffett, the third-richest man in the world, has criticised the US tax system for allowing him to pay a lower rate than his secretary and his cleaner. Speaking at a $4,600-a-seat fundraiser in New York for Senator Hillary Clinton, Mr Buffett, who is worth an estimated $52 billion (£26 billion), said: “The 400 of us [here] pay a lower part of our income in taxes than our receptionists do, or our cleaning ladies, for that matter. If you’re in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.” Mr Buffett said that he was taxed at 17.7 per cent on the $46 million he made last year, without trying to avoid ...
Court: Feds Can Seize Half of House
Post Date: 2007-06-28 13:23:13 by Brian S
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(06-28) 09:48 PDT Branford, Conn. (AP) -- A woman who claimed she was unaware that her husband was growing pot in the basement will get to keep her half of their house, while the government can seize her husband's share, a federal appeals court has ruled. The 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said in a ruling Wednesday that Harold Von Hofe must forfeit his interest in the home to the federal government. However, his wife, Kathleen, does not have to because she wasn't actively involved in her husband's marijuana cultivation. "The record is devoid of any evidence indicating her use of drugs or her involvement in any criminal activity whatsoever," the appeals court ...
The Senate's last Cloture vote - simple majority will pass the bill on Friday if Cloture passes today [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-06-28 09:41:35 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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Teddy K is now talking about the 'undocumented' and their great usefulness. He sounds calm, rested and 'reasonable' while urging for a 'yes'.
Bush won't supply subpoenaed documents
Post Date: 2007-06-28 09:38:00 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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Bush won't supply subpoenaed documents By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent 5 minutes ago The White House, moving toward a constitutional showdown with Congress, asserted executive privilege Thursday and rejected lawmakers' demands for documents that could shed light on the firings of federal prosecutors. President Bush's attorney told Congress the White House would not turn over subpoenaed documents for former presidential counsel Harriet Miers and former political director Sara Taylor. "With respect, it is with much regret that we are forced down this unfortunate path which we sought to avoid by finding grounds for mutual accommodation," White House ...
Revealed: Bush EPA chief says she quit after Cheney rewrote coal power plant rules
Post Date: 2007-06-28 09:32:41 by gengis gandhi
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Revealed: Bush EPA chief says she quit after Cheney rewrote coal power plant rules John Byrne Published: Wednesday June 27, 2007 Print This Email This Christine Todd Whitman is the media darling of talk shows, the conservative former governor of New Jersey and head of President George W. Bush's Environmental Protection Agency who quit the Bush Administration to "spend more time with her family." Evidently, that's not true. In a groundbreaking article today by the Washington Post, the paper alleges that Whitman left the Administration because they pressured her to accept pro-industry coal power plant rules which threatened ghoulish levels of air pollution. After ...
Dick Cheney's lawyers agree: He's part of the executive branch.
Post Date: 2007-06-28 09:25:07 by gengis gandhi
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Dems force Cheney to flip-flop on secret docs By: Mike Allen Jun 27, 2007 08:47 AM EST Updated: June 27, 2007 06:17 PM EST Dick Cheney Dick Cheney's lawyers agree: He's part of the executive branch. Photo by AP PRINT EMAIL RECOMMEND Dick Cheney's office is abandoning a justification for keeping the vice president's secret papers out of the hands of the National Archives, while asserting a new argument for withholding them. Officials working for Cheney had tried to claim he is separate from the executive branch, but they will no longer pursue that defense, senior administration officials tell The Politico. The decision follows a threat by Rep. Rahm Emanuel (Ill.), the ...
July 13, 2001 - Henry Hyde Proposes Commonwealth of the Americas
Post Date: 2007-06-28 07:13:04 by Jethro Tull
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NEWS Committee on International Relations U.S. House of Representatives Henry J. Hyde, Chairman CONTACT: Sam Stratman, (202) 226-7875 www.house.gov/international_relations July 13, 2001 For IMMEDIATE Release Hyde Proposes Commonwealth of the Americas Urges Closer Political, Economic & Security Ties in Hemisphere (WASHINGTON) - In a speech delivered today to graduates of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, U.S. Rep. Henry J. Hyde (R-IL) called for the creation of a Commonwealth of the Americas, "a permanent zone of peace, prosperity, and security throughout the entire Western Hemisphere." Hyde, chairman of the House International Relations ...
Group shows FEMA anticipated Katrina's destruction of New Orleans
Post Date: 2007-06-28 00:37:21 by robin
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Group shows FEMA anticipated Katrina's destruction of New OrleansBy Michael RostonGlobal Research, June 27, 2007Raw Story A major report published Wednesday by a Washington, DC-based watchdog shows that the Federal Emergency Management Agency anticipated the destruction that would result from a major hurricane striking New Orleans, yet failed to follow through on its own internal warnings. "FEMA’s disaster planning was based on a set of predictions that proved to be remarkably accurate. In 2000-2001, FEMA looked at a population of New Orleans that was over 1.3 million people and predicted that when a catastrophic hurricane struck, the city would be flooded with 14-17 feet of ...
NRA Challenges Gun-Control Democrats
Post Date: 2007-06-27 20:08:33 by Brian S
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(06-27) 17:01 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- For the first time since taking control of Congress, gun-control Democrats are taking on the National Rifle Association. The NRA seems to be nipping the effort in the bud. At issue is whether Congress should loosen restrictions on local law enforcement agencies' ability to gain access to gun-purchasing data to trace the movement of illegal guns around the nation. The restrictions on such "trace data" began almost four years ago when Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Kan., succeeded in limiting the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, or ATF, from publicly revealing information from its gun trace database. On Thursday, the battle shifts to the ...
Hatch sides with committee Democrats in subpoena of White House, Cheney's office (COMMITTEE VOTE 13-3)
Post Date: 2007-06-27 16:09:00 by aristeides
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Hatch sides with committee Democrats in subpoena of White House, Cheney's office By Laurie Kellman Associated Press Article Last Updated: 06/27/2007 01:14:45 PM MDT Posted: 1:14 PM- WASHINGTON -- The Senate Judiciary Committee subpoenaed the White House and Vice President Dick Cheney's office Wednesday for documents relating to President Bush's controversial eavesdropping program that operated warrant-free for five years. Also named in subpoenas signed by committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., were the Justice Department and the National Security Council. The four parties have until July 18 to comply, according to a statement by Leahy's office. The committee wants ...
Addressing the paradigm of king
Post Date: 2007-06-27 06:41:27 by Ada
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Sid Blumenthal this week describes how the President’s lust for executive force and fiat is being rebuffed and restrained. Rule of law may be said to matter still, albeit couched in the apologetic and obligatory language of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals decision concerning Al Marri vs Wright. In correctly refusing the President’s desires to detain and hold indefinitely whomever he wishes, the Circuit Court also demurs, with "Of course, this does not mean that the President lacks power to protect our national interests and defend our people, only that in doing so he must abide by the Constitution. We understand and do not in any way minimize the grave threat ...
Targeting Dissent: FBI Spying on the National Lawyers Guild
Post Date: 2007-06-26 23:34:47 by robin
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Targeting Dissent: FBI Spying on the National Lawyers Guild By Prof. Marjorie CohnGlobal Research, June 26, 2007 In 1937, the American Bar Association refused to allow people of color to join its ranks. With the blessing of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the National Lawyers Guild was founded as a multi-racial alternative to the ABA . The Guild's founding members included the attorney general, several judges, some congressmen, and the head of the National Labor Relations Board.Three years after the creation of the National Lawyers Guild, the FBI began to conduct secret surveillance of the Guild. From 1940 to 1975, the FBI wiretapped Guild phones, burglarized Guild offices, and sent ...
Ruby Ridge Survivor Weaver Now Being Stalked
Post Date: 2007-06-26 15:02:46 by christine
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Uniformed man witnessed in woods outside home Steve Watson Prison Planet Tuesday, June 25, 2007 Ruby Ridge massacre survivor Randy Weaver today appeared on the Alex Jones show to alert listeners to the fact that he appears to be under some kind of ongoing surveillance. Weaver was woken early this morning by his neighbour who had witnessed at least one man in a black uniform moving around in the trees just feet away from Weaver's house. The neighbour described a man in a black uniform who hurriedly left the scene in a black SUV. The local Sheriff's deputy reported to Weaver's house after his daughter, also a Ruby Ridge survivor, demanded to know who was conducting ...
Waxman's Latest Letter: White House Security A Joke All Around
Post Date: 2007-06-26 14:57:43 by aristeides
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Waxman's Latest Letter: White House Security A Joke All Around by Irfo [Subscribe] Tue Jun 26, 2007 at 11:00:02 AM PDT Our friend Rep. Henry Waxman has written another letter today, this time to Presidential counsel Fred Fielding (ahhh, memories of Watergate), and this time about the lax security that permeates the entire West Wing, not just Richard Bruce Cheney's curiously misplaced office. Here are some highlights: [Ms. Perino's] statements do not appear to be accurate. After the Committee’s hearing in March into the disclosure of the identity of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson, several former and current employees of the White House Security Office informed my ...
Senate votes to go ahead with the amnesty, goes to lunch
Post Date: 2007-06-26 12:39:42 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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The procedure to be executed is called the clay pigeon.
A Strong Push From Backstage (Cheney Angler series, Part 3 of 4)
Post Date: 2007-06-26 11:18:26 by robin
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A Strong Push From Backstage By Jo Becker and Barton Gellman Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, June 26, 2007; Page A01 Air Force Two touched down at the Greenbrier Valley Airport in West Virginia on Feb. 6, 2003, carrying Vice President Cheney to the annual retreat of Republican House and Senate leaders. He had come to sell them on the economic centerpiece of President Bush's first term: a $674 billion tax cut. Enlarge PhotoWhen the president announced his economic package the day after this Cabinet meeting in January 2003, Cheney had one more thing to add. Corbis Cheney had spent months making sure the package contained everything he wanted. One thing was missing. The ...
Mercenary swat spotted on or very near Randy Weaver's property this morning..reported by Dave on the PowerHour
Post Date: 2007-06-26 10:27:28 by christine
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A neighbor walking her dog saw a black suited man run into the wooded area near Randy's property then saw a black SUV with dark tinted windows. Randy's just back from the Brown's in NH. He called into the show and he was out not in his house.
Court decision puts 'issue ads' back into '08 race
Post Date: 2007-06-25 22:55:32 by mirage
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Supreme Court's reversal of federal limits on independent political advertising has the potential to add "another X factor" to an already-unpredictable 2008 presidential race, one campaign finance analyst said Monday. "It adds more money. It adds the potential for more upheaval from ad campaigns that the campaigns may want to stay away from," said Evan Tracey, a campaign finance analyst at TNS Media Intelligence. Monday's 5-4 ruling struck down a key provision of the 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign finance law that barred third-party issue advertising 30 days before a primary and 60 days before a general election and restricted the use of ...
Pushing the Envelope on Presidential Power
Post Date: 2007-06-25 22:02:41 by robin
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Pushing the Envelope on Presidential Power Web Q&A:» Reporter Barton Gellman, was online on Monday, June 25, to answer readers' questions about the Cheney series. Read the Q&A transcript. By Barton Gellman and Jo Becker Washington Post Staff Writers Monday, June 25, 2007 Shortly after the first accused terrorists reached the U.S. naval prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Jan. 11, 2002, a delegation from CIA headquarters arrived in the Situation Room. The agency presented a delicate problem to White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales, a man with next to no experience on the subject. Vice President Cheney's lawyer, who had a great deal of experience, sat nearby. The ...
Cheney Author: 9/11 Didn’t Change Cheney, Gave Him Opportunity ‘To Put His Views Into Action’
Post Date: 2007-06-25 19:11:54 by Zipporah
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Cheney Author: 9/11 Didn’t Change Cheney, Gave Him Opportunity ‘To Put His Views Into Action’ The Washington Post’s four-part series on the influence and power of Dick Cheney reveal the tactics of a stealthy operator who prizes secrecy, kneecaps opponents, stifles dissent, and dogmatically pursues a rigid hard-right agenda. Cheney has argued that his quest for war in Iraq, pursuit of torture, denial of due process to detainees, and advocacy for illegal wiretaps were all precipitated by the events of 9/11: CHENEY: In a sense, 9/11 changed everything for us. 9/11 forced us to think in new ways about threats to the United States, about our vulnerabilities, about who our ...
Constitution of the United States
Post Date: 2007-06-25 14:14:21 by richard9151
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Note; I have not compared this Constitution word for word with the original Constitution I just posted, but I have noted in just the first part a number of changes in capitalization of words, as an example. The point being that once you change one letter in the Constitution, it is null and void for the original purposes, as is any contract. The other thing that I have not done, yet, is compare this to the copies of the Constitution that are printed in numerous books, phamptlets, and, most importantly, quoted in law suits. However, I did check to some degree the copy of the Constitution beginning on page 1639 of Black's Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition, and found it to be very close, if ...
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