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The TRUE Stella Awards -- 2006 Winners
Post Date: 2007-02-10 19:27:44 by Kamala
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The TRUE Stella Awards -- 2006 Winners by Randy Cassingham Issued 31 January 2007 Unlike the FAKE cases that have been highly circulated online for the last several years (see http://www.StellaAwards.com/bogus.html for details), the following cases have been researched from public sources and are confirmed TRUE by the ONLY legitimate source for the Stella Awards: http://www.StellaAwards.com . To confirm this copy is legitimate, see http://www.StellaAwards.com/2006.html -v- 2006 Runners-Up and Winner: #5: Marcy Meckler. While shopping at a mall, Meckler stepped outside and was "attacked" by a squirrel that lived among the trees and bushes. And "while frantically ...
Trial exposes White House crisis machine
Post Date: 2007-02-10 14:53:29 by robin
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This photo provided by the White House shows David Addington in a July 19, 2005, file photo. Addington, chief legal adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, was taken aback when the White House started making public pronouncements about the CIA leak investigation. 'Why are you making these statements?' Addington asked White House communications director Dan Bartlett about White house denials that Karl Rove or I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby were involved in outing Valerie Plame, a CIA employee married to a well-placed critic of the war in Iraq. (AP Photo/White House, David Bohrer, File) David Addington, chief legal adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, says he was taken aback ...
Politics-Journalism Incest
Post Date: 2007-02-10 14:47:29 by robin
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This matrix is a spotlight on those members of the corporate media and public relations spin machine, and their mostly GOP/neo-con shill relatives, especially their spouses. (Additions are welcomed): Journalist/PropagandistRelative Job title of spouse/relativeHoward Kurtz, Washington Post and CNN Reliable Sources hostSheri Annis (wife)Pres. Fourth Estate Strategies, GOP campaign consultant, 2002 spokesperson for Arnold Schwarzenegger, media consultant for various anti-immigration California propositions, including Prop. 227, which eliminated various California bi-lingual education programs. Has written for the neo-con National Review. Chris Matthews, NBC and MS-NBC, Hardball hostJim ...
NEW Documents Show U.S. Torture Was Planned Long Ago
Post Date: 2007-02-09 19:52:13 by Zipporah
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NEW Documents Show U.S. Torture Was Planned Long Agoby Valtin Fri Feb 09, 2007 at 04:25:59 PM PSTThis diary is meant as an adjunct to Buckeye Hamburger's excellent diary, Interrogator Confesses Abuse of Iraqi Prisoners on WaPo. That story concerns the revelations of Eric Fair, a former Army contractor in Iraq, who admits that he engaged in torture and cruel and unusual punishments while working as an interrogator in Iraq. He sounds like the classic "I was following orders" type, except he is now haunted by the abuse he helped perpetrate. I wish to make public for the first time documents I recently obtained that show that mental health professionals who were researching ...
Some States Welcome National ID
Post Date: 2007-02-09 08:51:23 by Jethro Tull
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02:00 AM Feb, 09, 2007 SAN FRANCISCO -- Even as rebellion grows in some state capitals against the looming Real ID mandate from Congress, proponents speaking Thursday on a panel at the RSA Conference could barely contain their enthusiasm for putting standard government-issued ID cards in the hands of all citizens. The Real ID Act was inserted into a must-pass military spending bill in 2005. It requires states to redesign their driver's licenses and state ID cards to meet a common federal standard, and to start sharing information with all other states -- effectively turning 50 different state-issued cards into a national ID. Citizens will have to present documents such ...
INVASION USA, Author of DHS border-agent report lied to Congress, Senate Democrats give Feinstein OK to hold hearing on Ramos-Compean
Post Date: 2007-02-08 18:22:37 by christine
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A heavily redacted Department of Homeland Security report on the prosecutions of Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean was issued by Assistant Inspector General Elizabeth M. Redman, one of four investigators called upon to resign for lying to Congress. The 77-page report – which Redman issued with her signature in November – was released to the public yesterday on the heels of DHS Inspector General Robert Skinner's admission at a hearing that his deputies falsely told lawmakers the agency had documentary proof the border agents were rogue cops "out to shoot Mexicans." Yesterday, Culberson called for Redman and the three other officials to resign. ...
It Can't Happen Here? It Has Happened Here
Post Date: 2007-02-08 16:12:05 by Zoroaster
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It Can’t Happen Here? It Has Happened Here by Michael Nolan by Michael Nolan DIGG THIS Our fellow citizens have been led hoodwinked from their principles by a most extraordinary combination of circumstances. But the band is removed, and they now see for themselves." ~ Thomas Jefferson Today’s citizens, lately aware of the crimes of those who rule them from the White House, have removed the band (the blindfold) from their eyes. The huge majority of average Americans are dead set against "the surge" in Iraq, seeing it for what it is: the senseless slaughter of American sons and daughters on a mission which has nothing to do with US security. The question is, ...
MADSEN: THE SCHMITZES, BLACKWATER, PRINCE, AND THE BUSHES
Post Date: 2007-02-08 12:11:35 by aristeides
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February 7, 2007 -- The extended clan of George W. Bush includes the family of convicted child molester Mary Kay Letourneau. George H. W. Bush and John G. Schmitz, Sr. were fellow GOP members of the House of Representatives in 1970. However, the links between Schmitz, a former John Birch Society member who was ousted because of his extremism and who was detested by President Richard Nixon, and the Bushes go beyond sharing right-wing political beliefs. John G. Schmitz, Jr., the attorney son of the late Congressman Schmitz, was deputy counsel to President George H. W. Bush. He refused to testify before Iran-Contra Independent Counsel Judge Lawrence Walsh. Schmitz also clerked for then U.S. ...
Pentagon Inspector General to release investigation into secretive pre-war Iraq intelligence group
Post Date: 2007-02-08 07:32:56 by Eoghan
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Former Undersecretary Feith says he hasn't seen report A long awaited Pentagon Inspector General's report into the Office of Special Plans and its activities surrounding pre-war intelligence in the lead up to the Iraq war has been completed, RAW STORY has learned. According to sources close to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the classified version of the Pentagon IG's report will be released to committee members Friday. Two to three declassified pages may also be concurrently released to the public. A Senate aide on the committee, while not commenting on particular questions regarding the IG's report, confirmed that a major focal point involves former ...
N. Carolina: New Bill To Allow Courtroom Oaths On Koran
Post Date: 2007-02-07 16:33:16 by Brian S
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RALEIGH, North Carolina Courtroom oaths could be taken on the Koran and other sacred texts besides the Bible in a bill filed in the state Senate on Wednesday. The issue drew national attention last month when the first Muslim elected to US Congress took a ceremonial oath with a Koran once owned by Thomas Jefferson. In North Carolina, the issue appeared in 2003 when a Muslim woman sued the state because she was not allowed to swear an oath on the Koran when she was called as a witness in a court case. State law allows witnesses to use only the Bible for oaths. Three weeks ago, a state appeals court agreed to let her lawsuit continue. The new bill would allow an oath-taker to place a ...
Senator McCain To Propose Surveillance Of Illegal Images On The Web
Post Date: 2007-02-07 11:21:29 by Brian S
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A forthcoming bill in the U.S. Senate lays the groundwork for a national database of illegal images that Internet service providers would use to automatically flag and report suspicious content to police. The proposal, which Sen. John McCain is planning to introduce on Wednesday, also would require ISPs and perhaps some Web sites to alert the government of any illegal images of real or "cartoon" minors. Failure to do would be punished by criminal penalties including fines of up to $300,000. The Arizona Republican claims that his proposal, a draft of which was obtained by CNET http://News.com, will aid in investigations of child pornographers. It will "enhance the current ...
NBC’s Zucker lashes out at YouTube
Post Date: 2007-02-07 10:38:56 by Eoghan
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Jeff Zucker, on his first day as chief executive of NBC Universal, came out swinging at YouTube, accusing the online video site of failing to deploy its technology to protect the copyrighted materials of traditional media companies. “YouTube needs to prove that it will implement its filtering technology across its online platform. It’s proven it can do it when it wants to,” Mr Zucker said, referring to the site’s controls to block pornography and hate speech. He added: “They have the capability. The question is whether they have the will.” As he replaces Bob Wright atop the GE-owned media conglomerate, Mr Zucker has a mandate to shift programming to a new ...
What to Do When Jury Duty Summons You
Post Date: 2007-02-07 06:03:00 by Ada
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When you open your mailbox this afternoon, the last thing you’d expect to find is a summons to serve on a grand jury or regular trial jury. Most people cross their fingers hoping they can go through life without ever being called to jury duty. Unfortunately, plenty of people do get called and are unprepared for what is before them. It is because of this ignorance that prosecutors are able to indict virtually anybody for anything in the grand jury room, and it’s also the reason that the vast, vast majority of jury trials end in a conviction. There are some key things you can do if you are ever called to serve in a grand jury or regular jury that can help stem prosecutorial abuses. ...
will the real president please stand up?
Post Date: 2007-02-06 21:46:07 by kiki
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In a piece headlined "Vice President's Shadow Hangs Over Trial," the WaPo has a nice synopsis of Cheney's involvement in the Plame matter. Actually, you could headline just about every story that way these days: "Vice President's Shadow Hangs Over _________." Fill in the blank: Iraq. Iran. Global warming. Renditions. Domestic surveillance. I will confess to having been extremely skeptical in the early years of the Bush Presidency that Cheney was really running the show. It seemed too facile an explanation for what I was convinced was a far more complicated situation. Until the 9/11 Commission report came out. Even the watered-down version of events in the ...
Guiliani Hostile to Gun Owners, Gun Rights Group Says
Post Date: 2007-02-06 17:48:51 by Brian S
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Guiliani Hostile to Gun Owners, Gun Rights Group Says http://(CNSNews.com) - With former Mayor Rudolph Guiliani's setting his sights on the White House in 2008, gun owners are criticizing his record on gun rights, saying he has a history of hostility towards firearms and gun-owners. The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) noted that in June 2000, Guiliani became the only Republican mayor to sue the firearms industry during the series of lawsuits that began in the 1990s by cities seeking to hold gun manufacturers responsible for the criminal misuse of weapons. "Recent remarks indicate the mayor is attempting to camouflage his record on guns - a political maneuver now ...
MADSEN: BILL RICHARDSON CONFIRMS NSA MONITORED HIS DOMESTIC PHONE CALLS)
Post Date: 2007-02-05 19:23:01 by aristeides
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February 5, 2007 -- This editor had a brief conversation with Governor Richardson at the Washington Hilton. We spoke about the following article in the Albuquerque Tribune from Dec. 26, 2005: "Gov. Bill Richardson is concerned that some of his phone calls were monitored by a U.S. spy agency and transcripts of them were given to the president's nominee for ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton. Richardson called Sen. Chris Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat, to express his concerns after Dodd revealed that Bolton had on 10 occasions asked the National Security Agency for the intercepts of phone conversations involving Americans. 'The governor is upset that his conversations ...
Congress, spying & the rule of law
Post Date: 2007-02-05 17:37:06 by Zipporah
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Congress, spying & the rule of law By SHAYANA KADIDAL & ARI MELBER AFTER illegally spying on Americans without the required warrants for several years, the Bush administration is claiming a sudden change of heart. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales recently announced that the administration's domestic-spying program will stop bypassing judicial oversight. Instead, it will submit domestic surveillance to review by a federal intelligence court, as required by law. But before anyone celebrates the "good news" of an attorney general saying he will stop breaking the law, Congress must confront the administration's record of illegal spying and ensure that ...
MEDIA WANTS WACO-STYLE MASSACRE [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-02-05 16:16:02 by intotheabyss
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New Hampshire Patriot Not What Mainstream Wants You to Believe The circumstances surrounding the Browns, a New Hampshire couple convicted of federal income tax evasion, could turn on a dime. Recently AFP interviewed Ed Brown, a Plainfield home owner who grew up in the Roxbury slums of Boston. He and Mrs. Brown, who is a dentist, are self-made people who worked hard for their lot in life, only to see it swept away by a government that takes in gargantuan sums of money via taxes on the domestic populace to pay enormous interest on the national debt (which cannot be repaid), much of which is due to America‚s endless military conflicts. When AFP contacted Brown recently, he was living ...
NAFTA TAKES MORE VICTIMS
Post Date: 2007-02-05 15:48:31 by intotheabyss
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In a move that many grassroots activists believe signals a coming trend, two states have put taxpayer-financed toll roads up for sale to foreign companies. More disconcerting is the fact that these have the potential becoming a massive network of toll roads facilitating free trade throughout North America under the framework of the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA. In Indiana, foreign interests are obtaining the first lease agreement with a state government to privately operate an existing toll road—paying $3.8 billion for a 75-year lease to operate the Indiana Toll Road. In addition, the historically significant Pennsylvania Turnpike also may be headed to the proverbial ...
Prospects for Racial and Cultural Survival
Post Date: 2007-02-05 13:31:39 by Tauzero
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Prospects for Racial and Cultural Survival Samuel Francis, American Renaissance, Mar. 1995 It is all very well to say, as Mr. McCulloch and Rabbi Schiller do in the February issue of AR, that racial separation is necessary for the survival of whites and the civilization whites have created. It is quite different to spell out exactly how separation could come about and be successful. Neither they nor most other advocates of separatism seem to offer much in the way of concrete proposals, perhaps in part because they know that racial separation involves problems that today are virtually insurmountable, and that until those problems are solved neither separation nor any other enduring ...
Maine rejects Real ID Act
Post Date: 2007-02-05 12:52:26 by richard9151
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This report is important; it is important for people to begin to understand that what people think is important....... locally. It is important for people to begin to understand that what happens and where it happens is important........ locally. It is important for people to begin to understand and accept that what happens in Washington, DC, has little bearing on your life, unless you let it apply. And, perhaps most important of all, it is important to understand that the so-called New World Order has little real control over individuals. That is why this story is so important; and why it is neccessary to understand that the purpose of the so-called North American Union is to do away with ...
'Enemy combatant' fights detention in US federal court
Post Date: 2007-02-04 12:39:13 by Brian S
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Feb 04 12:17 PM US/Eastern For the US government, an alleged terrorist arrested at his home in the United States and imprisoned at a naval base in South Carolina has no more legal rights than the prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The federal appeals court in Richmond, Virginia, heard Thursday the case of Ali al-Marri, a Qatari immigrant and the only so-called "enemy combatant" arrested and still held in the United States. Marri, a legal US resident, is accused by the government of being a "sleeper agent" in the Al-Qaeda terrorist network. President George W. Bush's administration argues that a recent law sharply curtailing alleged terrorists' ...
Patriot John C. Calhoun Warned Against A Central Bank In 1830s
Post Date: 2007-02-04 12:17:06 by robin
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Patriot John C. Calhoun Warned Against A Central Bank In 1830s Dick Eastman olfriend@nwinfo.net 2-3-7 Note - These brave words are not on the net nor are they in any history textbooks. Calhoun gave clear warning of the danger of a central bank of the United States in the days before the veto by President Jackson. From a speech by John C. Calhoun against the foreign-owned central bank called "The Bank of the United States" during the early 1830's -- the so-called Jackson era. See that the Federal Reserve bank of today is nothing new. See that Calhoun, the intellectual heir of Jefferson, understood the problem completely -- the problem as it stood then, and the problem as it ...
1954 8th Grade Civics Test - Could You Pass?
Post Date: 2007-02-04 12:14:03 by robin
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1954 8th Grade Civics Test - Could You Pass? 2-1-7 What more proof do we need that our children are being deliberately dumbed down than this standard 1954 civics test on the U.S. Constitution on which Kenny Hignite received a 98 1/2, Excellent, indeed! Source http://www.americandeception.com/index.php?action=downloadpdf &ph oto=/pdfimages/Constitution_Test-Kenny_Hignite-8th Grade_ 101Qs-1954-Ca-6pg-Edu.pdf&id=111 Comment Kieth Norman 2-4-7 This priceless and invaluable educational article is a quiet (yet explosive) guardian as to the personal manner (a stark reminder), how criminality with stealth avoids detection by creeping carefully with its ...
Nemesis
Post Date: 2007-02-04 12:06:59 by Zoroaster
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Nemesis by Charley Reese by Charley Reese DIGG THIS It's axiomatic, based on history, that no nation can maintain an empire abroad and a democracy at home. We are now about to pay for our empire, and the price is American freedom. This is the message of a new book by Chalmers Johnson, a historian. His latest book is titled Nemesis and is the third work in what has turned out to be a trilogy on the American Empire. The first two were Blowback and The Sorrows of Empire. No American president in my memory has shown more disdain for the Constitution and its limits on power than George W. Bush. His ridiculous claim that his "signing statements" can alter the laws passed by ...
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