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House Panel Authorizes Subpoena for Rice, RNC E-Mails
Post Date: 2007-04-25 13:44:59 by aristeides
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House Panel Authorizes Subpoena for Rice, RNC E-Mails By Jonathan Allen, CQ Staff The Democratic-run House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Wednesday authorized subpoenas for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan and RNC e-mails as it ramps up a number of investigations of the Bush administration. Chairman Henry A. Waxman, D-Calif., announced that the panel would put off until Thursday expected action to compel testimony from former White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card to consider an offer by White House counsel Fred Fielding, who earlier had declined a request for Card’s voluntary testimony. Waxman also said ...
private military companies (PMCs)
Post Date: 2007-04-24 22:03:52 by robin
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Kucinich announces (AND FILES) impeachment charges against Vice President Cheney
Post Date: 2007-04-24 18:43:44 by aristeides
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Kucinich announces impeachment charges against Vice President Cheney Michael Roston Published: Tuesday April 24, 2007 Update: The Articles of Impeachment themselves are now available, and can be accessed at a link at the bottom of the story. After a series of delays, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a candidate for president in 2008, announced a series of charges against Vice President Dick Cheney in Washington, DC, late in the day. Kucinich alleged that the Vice President had committed a series of impeachable offenses, and he was therefore introducing Articles of Impeachment against Cheney in the Congress today. Kucinich started off by reading the opening words of the Declaration of ...
Fascist America, in 10 easy steps
Post Date: 2007-04-24 16:38:00 by boonie rat
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Fascist America, in 10 easy steps From Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history shows there are certain steps that any would-be dictator must take to destroy constitutional freedoms. And, argues Naomi Wolf, George Bush and his administration seem to be taking them all Tuesday April 24, 2007 The Guardian Last autumn, there was a military coup in Thailand. The leaders of the coup took a number of steps, rather systematically, as if they had a shopping list. In a sense, they did. Within a matter of days, democracy had been closed down: the coup leaders declared martial law, sent armed soldiers into residential areas, took over radio and TV stations, issued restrictions on the press, ...
Did Republicans sieze control of Ohio election servers in 2004?
Post Date: 2007-04-24 15:52:50 by aristeides
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Did Republicans sieze control of Ohio election servers in 2004? by KiTA [Subscribe] Tue Apr 24, 2007 at 12:13:40 PM PDT Update: Looks like someone else was way ahead of me. That's what I get for blogging during my lunch. ;) Here's an odd one. Netcraft is a website that tracks IP adresses, server software, etc. They basically keep a running snapshot of the internet, it's servers, and it's trends. Well, someone recently noticed something extremely fishy that happened in early November, 2004 (and later, in April 2006). Ohio's Secretary of State's website suddenly, without warning and with no reason, suddenly switched servers to the same hosting company that runs ...
US Attorney Todd Graves in Missouri: The ninth victim of Gonzogate (MYSTERIOUS DEATHS OF FEDERAL PROSECUTORS)
Post Date: 2007-04-23 18:57:05 by aristeides
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US Attorney Todd Graves in Missouri: The ninth victim of Gonzogate by james risser [Subscribe] Tue Apr 17, 2007 at 03:11:59 PM PDT The Bush Crime Family consider themselves magicians. While we look in one place, the trick is played in the other. They claim that this or that US Attorney did not go after voter-fraud, or immigration, or terrorism with sufficient fervor; yet, upon further investigation, the truth is found not in what they are saying, but, in what they are doing behind the curtain. Once again, I understand this diary is lengthy. But, this scandal spreads from Texas, to Missouri, to Arkansas, and to Washington, D.C.; it spans several years, there are several fired, resigned, ...
Court: Wisconsin Prosecution "Preposterous" (GEORGIA THOMPSON CASE)
Post Date: 2007-04-23 15:10:48 by aristeides
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Court: Wisconsin Prosecution "Preposterous" By Paul Kiel - April 20, 2007, 2:39 PM Earlier this month, a federal appeals court slapped down a prosecution against a Wisconsin state bureaucrat brought by U.S. Attorney for Milwaukee Steve Biskupic. The court took the extraordinary step of reversing the conviction and freeing the bureaucrat, named Georgia Thompson, due to the simple lack of a crime. That's led to a lot of questions about whether the case, which implicated the state's Democratic governor in an election year, was brought due to political pressure. Today, the court its written opinion on the case. And it wasn't any more sparing than the verbal remarks ...
Karl Rove Gets Thrown Under the Stop Global Warming Bus
Post Date: 2007-04-23 13:49:09 by aristeides
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Karl Rove Gets Thrown Under the Stop Global Warming Bus Last night Thelma and Louise drove the bus off the cliff or at least into the White House Correspondents Dinner. The "highlight" of the evening had to be when we were introduced to Karl Rove. How excited were we to have our first opportunity ever to talk directly to the Bush Administration about global warming. We asked Mr. Rove if he would consider taking a fresh look at the science of global warming. Much to our dismay, he immediately got combative. And it went downhill from there. We reminded the senior White House advisor that the US leads the world in global warming pollution and we are doing the least about it. Anger ...
Karl Rove needs some anger management assistance
Post Date: 2007-04-23 13:39:30 by aristeides
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Karl Rove needs some anger management assistance by Chris in Paris · 4/23/2007 09:22:00 AM ET And yes Karl, you most certainly do work for the American people and not just a hand full of campaign contributors. (H/T to TPM.) In his attempt to dismiss us, Mr. Rove turned to head toward his table, but as soon as he did so, Sheryl reached out to touch his arm. Karl swung around and spat, "Don't touch me." How hardened and removed from reality must a person be to refuse to be touched by Sheryl Crow? Unphased, Sheryl abruptly responded, "You can't speak to us like that, you work for us." Karl then quipped, "I don't work for you, I work for the ...
Bush rejects calls for attorney general resignation
Post Date: 2007-04-23 13:33:31 by aristeides
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Bush rejects calls for attorney general resignation Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:03AM EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Monday rejected calls for the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, saying Gonzales' Capitol Hill testimony last week "increased my confidence" in him. Bush said Gonzales' performance before critical U.S. lawmakers showed that the attorney general "broke no laws" in the firings last year of eight U.S. attorneys despite Democratic suspicions they were politically motivated.
How to Stop the Next Campus Shootings
Post Date: 2007-04-23 06:47:33 by Ada
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Bring Back the Posse Since there undoubtedly will be a next time, probably in the not so distant future, what useful counsel on preventive measures can we offer students and faculty and campus police forces across America? There have been the usual howls from the anti-gun lobby, but it's all hot air. America is not about to dump the Second Amendment to the US Constitution giving people the right--albeit an increasingly circumscribed one -- to bear arms. A better idea would be for appropriately screened teachers and maybe student monitors to carry weapons. A quarter of a century ago students doing military ROTC training regularly carried rifles around campus. US Supreme Court Justice ...
Chaplain James Yee on Guantanamo and Human Rights
Post Date: 2007-04-22 21:37:22 by Zipporah
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Chaplain James Yee, former US Army Muslim Chaplain at Guantanamo, discusses how he became a Muslim and then goes into detail about ... all » Guantanamo and his arrest and threatened court martial while serving as chaplain. He reveals Guantanamo's shocking interrogation technigues (such as sexual taunting from naked female interrogators), physical and psychological abuse, and desecration of the Koran by guards. He also discusses his own arrest, solitary confinement with sensory deprivation, and eventual total exoneration. All charges were dropped again him. He was returned to duty and given a commendation. He resigned his commission and received an honorable discharge. Mr. Yee ...
State to Decide Who is a “Dangerously Unstable” Person
Post Date: 2007-04-22 08:48:55 by Eoghan
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Recall the establishment of the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health in April 2002 and its “recommendations” issued in July, 2003. Bush’s commission found that “despite their prevalence, mental disorders often go undiagnosed” and the way to address this so-called problem was to screen “consumers of all ages,” especially preschool children, for mental problems, or what mental health “professionals” and drug company executives consider mental problems. “Each year, young children are expelled from preschools and childcare facilities for severely disruptive behaviors and emotional disorders.” According to the commission, schools are in ...
Irving On Zionist Germany's Thought Crime Perscutions
Post Date: 2007-04-22 07:28:56 by Zoroaster
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Irving On Zionist Germany's Thought Crime Persecutions By David Irving 4-21-7 LONDON -- I am told that in today's Times (April 7) the poo- obsessed Times columnist Giles Coren has revealed that his doctor has told him that he produces an excess of bile. His writings about me of late suggest that he had no real need to seek medical expertise to learn this. More seriously, the German Government has quietly admitted that over the last twelve months it prosecuted over 18,000 Germans for offences of "right-wing extremism," of which only a few hundred involved actual violence: i.e. they prosecuted over seventeen thousand thought-crimes -- people unwitting displaying the ...
ONE GUN TOO FEW
Post Date: 2007-04-20 19:19:58 by christine
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What the Washington Times of Tuesday, 17 April, aptly headlined as the “Massacre at Virginia Tech” is a tragedy that should—that must—teach this country a number of serious lessons. First, that all so-called “gun-free zones” are exceedingly dangerous places. For all “gun-free zones” amount to “self-defense prohibition zones” for honest citizens, and therefore “free-fire zones” for psychopaths, “terrorists,” and other homicidal criminals. If common sense did not, certainly the experiences documented by researchers such as John Lott confirm that the less “gun free” an area is (in terms of firearms in the ...
The State or the People
Post Date: 2007-04-20 13:51:51 by bluedogtxn
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by Paul Craig Roberts DIGG THIS What use is the political left? This is a serious question, not a rant. The same question can be asked about the political right. The question does not imply derogatory implications about individuals on the political left or the political right. Rather, the question concerns the basket of emotions, issues, and knee-jerk responses associated with the political left and the political right. Traditionally, the political left has had a Benthamite view of government, seeing government power as the tool for improving society whether through revolution or reform. Paradoxically, the political left has believed in Big Government despite the political left’s ...
Time to Consider Alternatives to a Politicized Criminal Justice System
Post Date: 2007-04-20 07:00:17 by Ada
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After a 395-day ordeal, the wrongfully accused Duke Lacrosse player Reade Seligmann spoke, "This entire experience has opened my eyes to the tragic world of injustice I never knew existed. If it is possible for law enforcement officials to systematically railroad us with no evidence whatsoever, it is frightening to think what they could do to those who do not have the resources to defend themselves." What a sad, but true statement from this 21-year-old who unluckily now has wisdom far beyond his years. Law is supposed to be impartial with a presumption of innocence, but as District Attorney Michael Nifong cruelly demonstrated, the criminal justice system is all too often used to ...
The State or The People
Post Date: 2007-04-20 06:49:44 by Ada
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What use is the political left? This is a serious question, not a rant. The same question can be asked about the political right. The question does not imply derogatory implications about individuals on the political left or the political right. Rather, the question concerns the basket of emotions, issues, and knee-jerk responses associated with the political left and the political right. Traditionally, the political left has had a Benthamite view of government, seeing government power as the tool for improving society whether through revolution or reform. Paradoxically, the political left has believed in Big Government despite the political left’s emphasis on civil liberty. The ...
The State of the People
Post Date: 2007-04-20 04:31:32 by Zoroaster
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The State or the People by Paul Craig Roberts by Paul Craig Roberts DIGG THIS What use is the political left? This is a serious question, not a rant. The same question can be asked about the political right. The question does not imply derogatory implications about individuals on the political left or the political right. Rather, the question concerns the basket of emotions, issues, and knee-jerk responses associated with the political left and the political right. Traditionally, the political left has had a Benthamite view of government, seeing government power as the tool for improving society whether through revolution or reform. Paradoxically, the political left has believed in Big ...
And Now to Suzanne, for Reaction from the White House (REACTION TO GONZALES)
Post Date: 2007-04-19 17:13:46 by aristeides
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And Now to Suzanne, for Reaction from the White House
by mcjoan
Thu Apr 19, 2007 at 01:34:08 PM PDT
From Atrios:
CNN reporting quotes from White House senior aides.
"Going down in flames."
"Not doing himself any favors."
"Watching clubbing a baby seal." (watching testimony)
"Very troubling."
"Don't understand that tactic Gonzales used."
Who and What is “Israel”?
Post Date: 2007-04-19 00:15:52 by robin
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Preface We have received a second round of emails relating to our hypothesis that U.S. aid to the State of Israel is repugnant to the General Welfare clause of the Constitution. As with the first round of responses, there is more agreement than disagreement. Because we are interested in the truth and care about people whose feelings we may have hurt or whose treasured shibboleths we may have undermined, we endeavor herein to once again objectively, intelligently and rationally respond to our critics. However, there is a danger. With each new article, round of emails and responses to those emails, our readers may lose sight of the fundamental Constitutional question before us. This is ...
Breaking: Univ. of Colo. student arrested for remarks about VA Tech shooter
Post Date: 2007-04-18 21:56:31 by aristeides
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Breaking: Univ. of Colo. student arrested for remarks about VA Tech shooter by Buck Fush [Subscribe] Wed Apr 18, 2007 at 06:26:21 PM I apologize for writing a "breaking" diary, but I haven't seen this addressed yet here, and it evoked the kind of "holy @#$%, is this really happening in America?" reaction that we've all experienced far too frequently over the last six years. The AP headline reads Student Arrested Over Va. Tech Remarks. Now, I understand that those tasked with ensuring security on college campuses are justifiably on edge right now, but this went beyond any reasonable bounds of decency. BOULDER, Colo. (AP) -- A University of Colorado student ...
Police Prepared To Arrest 3,000 At '08 RNC
Post Date: 2007-04-18 18:58:59 by Eoghan
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(AP) St. Paul The Ramsey County sheriff has prepared a $4.4 million budget for security during the 2008 Republican National Convention, with a plan to handle the arrests of as many as 3,000 protesters. Sheriff Bob Fletcher's proposal includes money for a possible open-air, fenced detention facility next to the county workhouse, riot equipment and Tasers, and $1.7 million for officers' overtime. Boston and New York City, which hosted the national political conventions in 2004, prepared for similar numbers of arrests but wound up arresting fewer. Fletcher said things could be different in 2008. "The tenor of the country's feelings about the war in Iraq is different than it ...
An Unfortunate Mishap (BLACKBERRY SHUTDOWN IN D.C. PART OF DOCUMENT ERASURE?)
Post Date: 2007-04-18 18:52:16 by aristeides
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An Unfortunate Mishap by rerutled [Subscribe] Wed Apr 18, 2007 at 06:20:02 AM PDT What a shame. It seems that Research In Motion is experiencing some unexplained difficulties with their email servers, and the entire system is down while they work on it. Later today, they'll be sorry to report that all emails sent before this past Monday -- in particular, emails which contain the words "Iglesias", "Lam" or "that bastard Sampson" have been inadvertently erased, using the "secure erase" feature. In fact, the relevant disk drives burst into flames. And the rooms in which they were stored fell over a nearby cliff, on which they were precariously ...
Kucinich Seeks To Ban Hand Guns In America
Post Date: 2007-04-18 14:17:18 by Mind_Virus
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Kucinich Seeks To Ban Hand Guns In America Congressman drafting legislation to make owning a hand gun illegal. By Darren Toms, Newsradio WTAM 1100 (Cleveland) - Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich wants to ban hand guns in America. Kucinich is currently drafting legislation that would ban the purchase, sale, transfer or possession of hand guns by civilians. A gun buy-back provision will be included in the bill. Kucinich announced this move in the aftermath of Monday’s deadly shooting at Virginia Tech. Kucinich noted in a speech to congress that about 32 people die each day in America due to hand gun related incidents. 33 died at VT. Kucinich says it's becoming "painfully ...
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