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Broadband Service Providers Face Wiretapping Deadline
Post Date: 2007-05-01 20:14:26 by Brian S
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Broadband service providers have until May 14 to upgrade their networks so law enforcement agencies can wiretap their IP networks for voice and data communications. The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act was enacted in 1994 and already requires phone companies to have such capabilities. The Federal Communications Commission ruled in 2005 that broadband and VoIP providers must be able to facilitate wiretaps used by intelligence authorities to allow old practices to be applied to newer technology. Earlier this year, providers were required to file plans for accommodating such requests. Since the plans directly relate to law enforcement investigations, the FCC didn't make ...
GONZALES WANTS ARBITRARY POWER TO BLOCK GUN PURCHASES; SAF SAYS HE SHOULD RESIGN
Post Date: 2007-05-01 19:55:14 by Brian S
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For Immediate Release: 5/1/2007 BELLEVUE, WA – Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ troubling support of legislation that would allow him and future attorneys general the arbitrary power to block firearms purchases without due process is cause for him to step down as the nation’s highest ranking law enforcement officer, the Second Amendment Foundation said today. The bill, S. 1237, was introduced last week at the Justice Department’s request by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), one of the most extreme anti-gunners in Congress. Called the “Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2007,” this legislation would give the Attorney General ...
Lawmakers Ask Feds to Share Data on Guns
Post Date: 2007-05-01 19:43:02 by Brian S
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(05-01) 15:28 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) -- When handguns with bullets that can pierce body armor showed up on the streets of New Jersey, Sen. Frank Lautenberg asked federal regulators to share data that could help local police figure out where the weapons were coming from. That information, the New Jersey Democrat was told, is off-limits. The amendment that bars such sharing of gun trace data has now touched off a feud between its sponsor, Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Kan., and a coalition of more than 200 mayors led by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino. Insisting that gun trace data is an essential crimefighting tool for cities, Bloomberg used his own funds as ...
Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water
Post Date: 2007-05-01 18:36:45 by gengis gandhi
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Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water By Tara Lohan, AlterNet. Posted April 25, 2007. The Bush administration is helping multinationals buy U.S. municipal water systems, putting our most important resource in the hands of corporations with no public accountability. Tools email EMAIL print PRINT 144 COMMENTS 50994story Share & save this story: Digg iconDelicious iconReddit iconFark iconYahoo! iconNewsvine! icon Also in EnviroHealth Women Lead the Climate Change Fight Laura Orlando, Linda Carty A Global Democratic Movement Is About to Pop Paul Hawken EarthTalk: ExxonMobil's Climate Contrarians Can the Ruling Classes Save the World From Global Warming? Doug Henwood ...
The Israel Factor infiltrates Democratic Presidential Candidate debate
Post Date: 2007-05-01 18:30:18 by gengis gandhi
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The Israel Factor infiltrates Democratic Presidential Candidate debate http://www.muckrakerreport.com/id398.html May 1, 2007 – It was clearly a set up question. There was nothing random about it. It was a purposeful effort designed and executed by Israel loyalists and protectionists that take their orders, whether they realize it or not, from a complex web of manipulators now correctly identified as the Israel Lobby. Barack Obama should have expected it. After all, the Chicago Sun Times reported recently that “Obama’s camp is well-aware”[1] of the ongoing Israeli survey called The Israel Factor: Ranking the presidential candidates, and the low marks Obama is ...
The Sham of the Padilla Trial
Post Date: 2007-05-01 05:59:27 by Ada
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Jury selection in the Jose Padilla case is now under way in federal district court in Miami, but the trial is nothing more than a sham. Why? Because no matter how the jury rules, Padilla is almost certain to remain incarcerated for a long time. If Padilla is convicted by the jury, the judge will likely sentence him to serve much of the rest of his life in a federal penitentiary for having conspired to violate federal criminal laws against terrorism. On the other hand, if Padilla is acquitted, the U.S. military is likely to exercise its post-9/11-acquired power to declare Americans (and foreigners) “enemy combatants” in the war on terror and throw Padilla back into a military ...
Deathbed confessions, photos support claims that George H. Scherf(f), Jr., was the 41st U.S. president (Bush family as nazi infiltrators?)
Post Date: 2007-04-30 21:57:08 by gengis gandhi
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Deathbed confessions, photos support claims that George H. Scherf(f), Jr., was the 41st U.S. president According to Otto Skorzeny, pictured is the Scherff family and a few friends (circa 1938). Holding “Mother" Scherff’s hand at left is possibly Martin Bormann. In front is Reinhardt Gehlen. In back is Joseph Mengele and to his right is Otto Skorzeny as a young man. At center right (in the German navy uniform) is George H. Scherff, Jr. and his father George H. Scherff, with Sr. Bormann (to the right of Scherff, Sr.) became Hitler’s second in command. Gehlan (bottom front) was a Nazi general who was smuggled out of Germany under Operation Paperclip to establish a Nazi ...
Supreme Court Won't Hear Guantanamo Case
Post Date: 2007-04-30 11:07:36 by Brian S
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The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear the case of two Guantanamo Bay prisoners who want to challenge the legality of military commissions. Salim Ahmed Hamdan and Omar Khadr face commission trials - Hamdan for acting as a driver and bodyguard for Osama bin Laden, and Khadr for throwing a grenade that killed a U.S. Green Beret soldier. Justices David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer would have granted the request to hear the case, the court said in turning it down. It takes four votes, though, to hear a case. The court's action follows its April 2 decision not to step into related aspects of the legal battle regarding other Guantanamo Bay detainees. The issue there ...
LINE IN THE SAND NOW AT PACIFIC OCEAN
Post Date: 2007-04-30 09:33:41 by christine
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"GATT will mean social upheaval and political instability bringing far worse global consequences than the Bolshevik Revolution...If the masses understood the truth about GATT, there would be blood in the streets of many capitals." December 6, 1993, Washington Times interview with the late billionaire financier Sir James Goldsmith I can remember 17 years ago when I first became aware of the dark forces and players overtaking our republic. I was able to grasp the game plan well underway to destroy these united States of America and force the American people to pay for our own destruction by sacking the people's treasury via a privately owned banking cartel deceptively called ...
Sic Sempter Tyrannis
Post Date: 2007-04-30 05:56:08 by Ada
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Maybe the authors of the Federalist Papers were liars. Maybe they were just engaged in political propaganda in order to shove through the Constitution. In secret, perhaps, they were plotting a leviathan state with a president who can do all that the Bush administration claims he can, which pretty much amounts to whatever Bush wants to do. If that was the case, they knew better than to advertise it. The Constitution would never have passed. Fear of a powerful president was one of the main reasons that people were fearful of abandoning the Articles of Confederation, which had no executive to speak of. Recall that the founders had long tangled with the king in England. The entire Declaration ...
Prediction Comes True: Student Arrested for Creative Writing Essay -- Updated
Post Date: 2007-04-29 08:34:59 by Zipporah
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THREAT LEVEL Prediction Comes True: Student Arrested for Creative Writing Essay -- Updated Chicago high school student Allen Lee, 18, was arrested and charged with "disorderly conduct" for writing an essay in creative writing class that his teacher found disturbing. He's also been barred from classes at Cary-Grove High School, where he's reportedly been a straight-A student. The Chicago Tribune reports that the teacher had "encouraged students to express their emotions through writing." Cary Police Chief Ron Delelio said the charge was appropriate even though the essay was not published or posted for public viewing. Disorderly conduct, which carries a penalty ...
Justice Department official resigns as Abramoff probe heats up (DEPUTY CHIEF OF CRIMINAL DIVISION, FRIEND OF ABRAMOFF'S)
Post Date: 2007-04-27 19:25:09 by aristeides
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Justice Department official resigns as Abramoff probe heats up By Marisa Taylor and David Whitney McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) WASHINGTON - A senior Justice Department official has resigned after coming under scrutiny in the department's expanding investigation of convicted super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, according to a Justice Department official with knowledge of the case. Making the situation more awkward for the embattled department, the official, Robert E. Coughlin II, was deputy chief of staff for the criminal division, which is overseeing the department's probe of Abramoff. He stepped down effective April 6 as investigators in Coughlin's own division ratcheted up their ...
Administration considered firing at least 12 U.S. attorneys but cut list down
Post Date: 2007-04-27 19:21:41 by aristeides
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Administration considered firing at least 12 U.S. attorneys but cut list down By Margaret Talev, Ron Hutcheson and Marisa Taylor McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON - Congressional sources who have seen unedited internal documents say the Bush administration considered firing at least a dozen U.S. attorneys before paring down its list to eight late last year. The four who escaped dismissal came from states considered political battlegrounds in the last presidential election: Missouri, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Two of the four said they resigned voluntarily before the mass firings of U.S. attorneys on Dec. 7. Two continue to serve as federal prosecutors. The latest revelation ...
Toledo Blade Columnist: 'Special Squads of Police' Should Disarm Americans
Post Date: 2007-04-27 17:13:42 by Mind_Virus
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Toledo Blade Columnist: 'Special Squads of Police' Should Disarm Americans Posted by Warner Todd Huston on April 27, 2007 - 11:21. Since the VT shootings in Blacksburg, Virginia, we have seen all manner of wild-eyed, anti-gunners come out of the woodwork to cynically use this crime as a chance to beat their gun grabbing drums. But, proposing that we send government Stormtroopers to smash down the doors of every home with a gun in it to confiscate their Constitutionally legal firearms is a step I haven't seen in a purportedly responsible newspaper. That is, until the Toledo Blade published a proposal for taking away our right to self-protection that included "Special ...
Confiscation of Registered Guns Begins In Illinois
Post Date: 2007-04-27 17:10:46 by Mind_Virus
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Confiscation of Registered Guns Begins In Illinois Chicago Anti Gun Enforcement (CAGE) unit. This elite squad, operated jointly by the Illinois State Police, the Chicago Police Department, and the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, supposedly exists to identify illegal gunrunners. However, information gained by the ISRA makes it clear that the CAGE unit is targeting law-abiding citizens, not criminal gunrunners. The Chicago Police Department and the Illinois State Police have teamed up to make good on Mayor Daley's pledge that, if it were up to him, nobody would have a gun. Daley and his elite "CAGE" unit are apparently taking advantage of gun privacy loopholes ...
Police Subdue [BLIND] Man, Who Dies
Post Date: 2007-04-27 15:18:58 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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Police Subdue Man, Who Dies A 41-year-old Queens man died early yesterday morning after police officers and medical workers responded to a 911 call that he was emotionally disturbed and acting irrationally, the police said. The police said that they arrived at 104-36 204th Street in St. Albans, the home of the man, Patrick Ryan, after the 4:20 a.m. call, which came from his girlfriend. Seven officers sustained minor injuries trying to subdue Mr. Ryan, they said. He was strapped to a backboard and taken to Mary Immaculate Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 6:13 a.m., the authorities said. The police said that they did not know the exact cause of death, and that the medical examiner ...
ROCK WASHINGTON, DC NOW: FDA, SUPPLEMENTS AND SO-CALLED HATE CRIME BILL
Post Date: 2007-04-27 08:53:19 by robin
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I'm going to cut to the chase here on the latest efforts by non elected government bureaucrats and Congress to further destroy our natural rights. First, our right to natural health care and supplements, which cuts into the mega billions of dollars in profit to the big pharmaceutical companies, see Tom DeWeese's recent column: "The Federal Drug Administration (FDA) has launched another sneak-attack, trying to regulate your health freedom into oblivion. Through FDA’s unholy partnerships with Big Pharma and the Codex Alimentarius Commission (an offshoot of the UN), we are very close to losing alternative health care in America. This is a crisis, and needs your immediate ...
Senate passes bill to pull troops out of Iraq, paving way for veto showdown (51-46 VOTE)
Post Date: 2007-04-26 13:33:22 by aristeides
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Senate passes bill to pull troops out of Iraq, paving way for veto showdown ANNE FLAHERTY | AP | April 26, 2007 01:22 PM EST WASHINGTON — A defiant Democratic-controlled Senate passed legislation Thursday that would require the start of troop withdrawals from Iraq by Oct. 1, propelling Congress toward a historic veto showdown with President Bush on the war. The 51-46 vote was largely along party lines, and like House passage of the same bill a day earlier, fell far short of the two-thirds margin needed to overturn the president's threatened veto. Nevertheless, the legislation is the first binding challenge on the war that Democrats have managed to send to Bush since they ...
Bush Approval Rating Falls to 28%, Lowest Level So Far, in Harris Poll
Post Date: 2007-04-26 13:18:10 by aristeides
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Bush Approval Rating Falls to 28%, Lowest Level So Far, in Harris Poll Washington, DC | April 26 Wall Street Journal - President Bush's approval rating slipped to new lows in the most recent Harris Interactive survey, but he's not alone: For the first time since the series began, all of the political figures and institutions included in the survey have negative performance ratings. Of the 1,001 American adults polled online April 20-23, only 28% had a positive view of Mr. Bush's job performance, down from 32% in February and from a high of 88% in the aftermath of the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The current rating is his weakest showing since his inauguration. Secretary ...
Bush's Barricade (NOVAK)
Post Date: 2007-04-26 11:04:51 by aristeides
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Bush's Barricade By Robert D. Novak Thursday, April 26, 2007; Page A29 A report as routine as the one put out by the Identity Theft Task Force on Monday normally is released without a White House statement, but this time the announcement came from George W. Bush himself. He praised Attorney General Alberto Gonzales "for taking on this difficult and important assignment" in co-chairing the task force. That constituted bad news for Republicans outside the White House, signaling that the president really does intend to keep Gonzales. That Bush went out of his way to support his beleaguered friend from Texas confirmed other signals sent this week; the president's ...
Judge Says 'Dirty Bomb' Case Is 'Light on Facts'
Post Date: 2007-04-26 05:57:46 by Ada
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When Jose Padilla was arrested at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago in May 2002, then Attorney General John Ashcroft interrupted his meetings in Moscow to announce that the United States had nabbed a suspected al Qaeda operative who had intended to blow up a radiological device, or "dirty bomb," in the United States. But when Padilla soon goes to trial, the government could have considerable trouble proving the case and supporting what Ashcroft then billed as a "significant step forward in the war on terrorism." Indeed, the allegations of a dirty bomb plot are nonexistent in the government's court papers, and the two sources who made those allegations ...
The Truth And Jessica Lynch
Post Date: 2007-04-25 21:21:43 by Zipporah
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The Truth And Jessica LynchPosted by David Martin(CBS)David Martin is National Security Correspondent for CBS News. To watch Jessica Lynch testify before a congressional committee today, you had to take her word for it that this was the same terrified young lady we saw being carried on to a transport plane after her rescue by special operations forces. She showed no outward signs of the severe injuries she had suffered when her vehicle was hit by a rocket propelled grenade and crashed, although she said she still has no feeling in part of her left leg and wears a brace at least some of the time. (AP /APTN)She most definitely is no longer terrified. She is self-assured and articulate, no ...
Republican Amnesia, remember?
Post Date: 2007-04-25 17:22:04 by bluedogtxn
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WTF? A time frame for Bosnia? A withdrawal date for Kosovo? by VirginiaDem [Subscribe] Wed Apr 25, 2007 at 01:14:07 PM PDT I can't believe this isn't being screamed from every single rooftop in the progressive blogosphere. The Republicans demanded timetables from Bill Clinton's military operations! TP's got the goods, focusing on votes by an intellectually dishonest Senator Kyl: – In June 1998, Kyl voted in favor of amending the National Defense Authorization Act for FY1999 to "require the President to submit Congress a plan for withdrawing United States forces from Bosnia and Herzegovina if the Congress does not so act by March 31, 1999." – In May 2000 ...
NY Post publishes fake AP story in order to blast Dems
Post Date: 2007-04-25 15:05:53 by aristeides
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NY Post publishes fake AP story in order to blast Dems by John Aravosis (DC) · 4/25/2007 01:50:00 PM ET Wow, even FOX News hasn't tried this little trick. The conservative tabloid, New York Post, owned by Republican media magnate Rupert Murdoch, published a story today criticizing Democrats for giving a "death sentence" to millions of Iraqis. The only problem? The AP never wrote any such thing. You wouldn't really call this plagiarism - I'm not sure what you call it. Faking someone else's byline in order to print a story blasting a political enemy. Wow. TPM's Greg Sargent spoke with the AP reporter, David Espo, who the NY Post claims wrote the story. ...
Leahy, Specter demand more answers from Gonzales
Post Date: 2007-04-25 14:17:15 by aristeides
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Leahy, Specter demand more answers from Gonzales By Klaus Marre April 25, 2007 The leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee, in a bipartisan letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, indicated that they were displeased with his performance at a panel hearing last week and demanded additional answers. Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and ranking Republican Arlen Specter (Pa.) chastised Gonzales for failing to answer questions that “should not have been a surprise,” noting that the attorney general rigorously prepared for the April 19 hearing. “By some counts you failed to answer more than 100 questions, by other counts more than 70, but the most conservative count had ...
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