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UN Labels on US Parks
Post Date: 2007-01-20 15:30:50 by richard9151
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UN Labels on US Parks http://www.usasurvival.org/parks.html Go to the site listed as URL Source to see examples of the signs and the changes made. U.N. designations such as "World Heritage Site" and "Biosphere Reserve" are being placed on dozens of U.S parks and monuments, including Independence Hall, the Statue of Liberty and Yellowstone National Park. At Mt. Mitchell State Park in North Carolina (pictured here), a sign leading into the park designated it as a U.N. Biosphere Reserve. When citizens protested, the words "United Nations" were taken off the sign and "international" was put in its place, to make it seem less ominous. But if all of this ...
The USA PATRIOT Act Was Planned Before 9/11
Post Date: 2007-01-20 15:21:08 by richard9151
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The USA PATRIOT Act Was Planned Before 9/11 by Jennifer Van Bergen t r u t h o u t | 20 May, 2002 Many people do not know that the USA PATRIOT Act was already written and ready to go long before September 11th. Recent criticism of Bush's admission that he had received warnings only weeks before September 11th has made it more important to understand the origins of the USAPA. The USA PATRIOT Act - the so-called "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001," a.k.a. the USAPA -- was enacted in the immediate wake of 9/11, riding a wave of fear that spread over the nation. This Act has caused much ...
What is the North American Union?
Post Date: 2007-01-20 15:16:16 by richard9151
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What is the North American Union? Look at the European Union and substitute "North American" for European. Substitute the names of European countries for the states of the United States plus the countries of the Americas. We are about a decade behind the European Union in consolidating power in the unelected, undemocratic supranational governing body. We're still in the stage of integrating economies through 'free trade', but as soon as that is done, they will name this monster, the North American Union. In the history of the European Union (link above), it states: A key activity of the EU is the establishment and administration of a common single market, consisting ...
Executive Order 12803 - order to sell U.S. infrastructure.
Post Date: 2007-01-20 15:00:23 by richard9151
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In 1992, George H.W. Bush signed Executive Order 12803 - order to sell U.S. infrastructure. http://www.channelingreality.com/ Documents/ Executive_ Order_12803. pdf The above is an interesting document, particularly since this is the only manner in which, in any nation which uses a debt money system for ´money´, to decrese the debt load on the nation. Please pay close attention to the more than 16 different types of infrastructure that can be sold, including roads, ports and prisons.
Brown: Politics played role in Katrina
Post Date: 2007-01-20 11:47:51 by robin
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Political storm clouds gathered again over the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina as former Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown said party politics influenced decisions on whether to take federal control of Louisiana and other areas affected by the hurricane. Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco said the partisanship Brown described was "disgusting," while a White House spokeswoman said Brown was making "false statements." Brown told a group of graduate students Friday that some in the White House had suggested the federal government should take charge in Louisiana because Blanco was a Democrat, while leaving Mississippi Gov. Haley ...
Letter from Guantanamo: Jumah al-Dossari
Post Date: 2007-01-19 20:55:23 by Zipporah
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Letter from Guantanamo: Jumah al-Dossari In the Los Angeles Times, this personal account from Jumah al-Dossari, a 33-year-old man from Bahrain who has been held at the Guantánamo Bay detainment camp for the past four years. He claims to have been tortured while in American custody, including beatings, death threats, prolonged isolation, exposure to extreme cold and sexual assaults. While detained, he has attempted to kill himself more than 12 times: slitting his own throat once, hanging himself in the toilet another. The LAT's editors precede his written account with, "This article was excerpted from letters he wrote to his attorneys. Its contents have been deemed ...
NJ - Movement to ban smoking in cars with kids
Post Date: 2007-01-19 19:29:05 by Jethro Tull
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New York - WABC, January 19, 2007) - New Jersey is looking to join a growing trend banning smoking in cars that have children inside. Supporters say it'll keep kids healthy. But critics say it's the law, going too far. New Jersey reporter Toni Yates takes look at both sides. New laws push smokers outdoors, out of offices, out of restaurants, and just about every other publicly-used and enclosed space. State senator Raymond wants them out of cars, too. Senator Ray Lesniak is proposing legislation for the New Jersey State to ban smoking in a car where anyone under 16 is a passenger. Seeing it happen was the motivation. "I looked to my right. There was woman windows rolled ...
Gonzales Questions Habeas Corpus
Post Date: 2007-01-19 13:39:55 by Ferret Mike
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Responding to questions from Sen. Arlen Specter at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Jan. 18, Gonzales argued that the Constitution doesn’t explicitly bestow habeas corpus rights; it merely says when the so-called Great Writ can be suspended. “There is no expressed grant of habeas in the Constitution; there’s a prohibition against taking it away,” Gonzales said. Gonzales’s remark left Specter, the committee’s ranking Republican, stammering. “Wait a minute,” Specter interjected. “The Constitution says you can’t take it away except in case of rebellion or invasion. Doesn’t that mean you have the right of habeas corpus unless ...
Bloggers Who Criticize Government May Face Prison
Post Date: 2007-01-19 12:54:43 by Nostalgia
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You'd be forgiven for thinking that it was some new restriction on free speech in Communist China. But it isn't. The U.S. Government wants to force bloggers and online grassroots activists to register and regularly report their activities to Congress in the latest astounding attack on the internet and the First Amendment. Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman of http://GrassrootsFreedom.com, a website dedicated to fighting efforts to silence grassroots movements, states: "Section 220 of S. 1, the lobbying reform bill currently before the Senate, would require grassroots causes, even bloggers, who communicate to 500 or more members of the public on policy matters, to register and ...
Feinstein claims White House using Patriot Act to oust prosecutors
Post Date: 2007-01-19 11:08:30 by Brian S
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Claims Bush Administration Used Act To Oust Prosecutors, Replace Them With Allies WASHINGTON Senator Dianne Feinstein is claiming that the White House has taken advantage of the Patriot Act to oust the top prosecutor in coastal Northern California and other federal prosecutors. The California Democrat complained on the Senate floor that the Bush administration has used a provision of the Patriot Act to remove U-S Attorney Kevin Ryan and other prosecutors and replace them with White House allies. Feinstein made her assertion at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing while questioning Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Gonzales denied Feinstein's claim. Ryan announced earlier this week ...
Congress preparing to criminalize critics? Senate bill would 'create most expansive intrusion on First Amendment rights ever'
Post Date: 2007-01-19 10:35:52 by christine
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The Senate is considering legislation that would regulate grassroots communications, with penalties for critics of Congress. "In what sounds like a comedy sketch from Jon Stewart's Daily Show, but isn't, the U. S. Senate would impose criminal penalties, even jail time, on grassroots causes and citizens who criticize Congress," says Richard A. Viguerie, chairman of http://GrassrootsFreedom.com Section 220 of S. 1, the lobbying reform bill before the Senate, would require grassroots causes, even bloggers, who communicate to 500 or more members of the public on policy matters, to register and report quarterly to Congress, as lobbyists are required. "Section 220 would ...
Kiko Martinez: Watch Listed for Life
Post Date: 2007-01-19 07:37:40 by Kamala
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Features > January 19, 2007 Kiko Martinez: Watch Listed for Life By Kari Lydersen Aside from being on the no-fly list, Kiko Martinez has also been harrassed three times while driving. Share Digg del.icio.us Reddit Newsvine Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, Francisco “Kiko” Martinez, a Colorado civil rights attorney and long-time Chicano activist, was flying home from visiting family in Washington state. At the Salt Lake City airport, federal officials barred him from making his connecting flight back to Colorado. After they questioned and prohibited him from boarding his flight, he ended up taking a bus home. Turns out he was on the “no fly” list, a shadowy roster ...
Jewish Membership in Congress at All-Time High
Post Date: 2007-01-18 23:19:29 by rack42
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While Democrats celebrated the election of the House's first female speaker, another milestone passed more quietly: The 110th Congress includes more Jewish lawmakers than any other in history, and all but four are Democrats. About 2 percent of Americans identify themselves as Jewish. But in Congress, the proportion of Jewish members is now four times that. Six new Jewish House members were sworn in last week, bringing the total to 30. In the Senate, the 13 Jewish members include freshmen Benjamin L. Cardin (D-Md.) and Bernard Sanders (I-Vt.), according to the National Jewish Democratic Council. § Ö7; Security Cleared? Government gurus and IT experts needed to fill positions ...
National ID to Be Privatized, Activist Says He Has Docs
Post Date: 2007-01-18 21:24:18 by Zipporah
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National ID to Be Privatized, Activist Says He Has Docs A program to standardize state driver's licenses to create a de facto national I.D. should use a third-party -- most likely a private contractor -- to verify that a person is eligible for a driver's license or state identification card, according to a document provided to 27B by a privacy activist. The document appears to be a portion of the rules that Homeland Security is proposing for the program, which are currently being evaluated by the Office of Management and Budget before they are presented to the public for comment. According to the document (.txt) that Bill Scannell of UnReal ID says he got from a government ...
CNN takes 'inside look' at a once-secret CIA prison
Post Date: 2007-01-18 19:27:51 by Zipporah
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On Thursday morning, CNN took an "inside look" at a once-secret CIA prison, based on letters written by a detainee who is now being held at the Guantanamo Bay facility in Cuba. Terrorism suspect Majid Khan is called the "worst of the worst" by the US goverment, but his family showed the cable news network letters he wrote behind bars which attest to his innocence. Khan's family hadn't heard from him in three years, and had thought he was dead. Khan was one of the fourteen detainees that the United States held in secret prisons before transferring them to Guantanamo last year. The cable news network also showed documents that have been redacted, from the ...
Pentagon Rules For Terror Suspect Trials: Hearsay, Some Coerced Testimony OK
Post Date: 2007-01-18 19:23:17 by Brian S
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2:17 p.m. January 18, 2007 WASHINGTON – The Pentagon set rules Thursday for detainee trials that could allow terror suspects to be convicted and perhaps executed using hearsay testimony and coerced statements, setting up a new clash between President Bush and Congress. The rules are fair, said the Pentagon, which released them in a manual for the expected trials. Democrats controlling Congress said they would hold hearings on the plan, and human rights organizations complained that the regulations would allow evidence that would not be tolerated in civilian or military courtrooms. According to the 238-page manual, a detainee's lawyer could not reveal classified evidence in the ...
Impeach Gonzales (AG GONZALES: NO RIGHT OF HABEAS CORPUS IN CONSTITUTION)
Post Date: 2007-01-18 17:33:25 by aristeides
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Impeach Gonzales by mcjoan Thu Jan 18, 2007 at 12:22:18 PM PST A reader transcribed this exchange concerning habeas corpus from today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearings (no official transcript yet): Specter: Now wait a minute, wait a minute. The Constitution says you can't take it away except in the case of invasion or rebellion. Doesn't that mean you have the right of habeas corpus? Gonzales: I meant by that comment that the Constitution doesn't say that every individual in the United States or every citizen has or is assured the right of habeas corpus. It doesn't say that. It simply says that the right of habeas corpus shall not be suspended. Article I, ...
Bush Seizes Control Over State Militias
Post Date: 2007-01-18 11:11:32 by Brian S
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Bush Seizes Control Over State Militias Centralized, paternalistic government was a bad Soviet Communist idea, so why does AWOL Bush favor it? Here are portions of a news article appearing at >http://stateline.org by Kavan PetersonA little-noticed change in federal law packs an important change in who is in charge the next time a state is devastated by a disaster such as Hurricane Katrina. To the dismay of the nation’s governors, the White House now will be empowered to go over a governor’s head and call up National Guard troops to aid a state in time of natural disasters or other public emergencies. Up to now, governors were the sole commanders in chief of citizen soldiers ...
Gonzales Faults Judges' Terror Rulings; "unqualified to decide terrorism issues"
Post Date: 2007-01-17 22:35:32 by Brian S
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(01-17) 18:41 PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Alberto Gonzales rapped federal judges Wednesday for ruling on cases that affect national security policy. Judges, he contended, are unqualified to decide terrorism issues that he said are best settled by Congress or the president. In a sharply worded speech directed at the third, and equal, branch of the government, Gonzales outlined some of the qualities the Bush administration looks for when selecting candidates for the federal bench. He condemned what he termed activist judges with lifetime appointments who "undermine the right of the people to govern themselves." In nominating a judge, "we want to determine ...
Is Racial Diversity Good for Canada?
Post Date: 2007-01-17 20:37:04 by Tauzero
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Is Racial Diversity Good for Canada? by Jared Taylor Last November, Prof. David Divine of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, agreed to meet Jared Taylor in a debate on whether racial diversity is a strength or a weakness. Late in December, he backed out of his agreement, claiming he had been unaware of Mr. Taylor's background, and was now unwilling to let him speak. AR secured a venue in Halifax, where Jared Taylor planned to give the following talk on Jan. 16, the day after Prof. Divine gave his. On Jan. 16, before Mr. Taylor could even be introduced, 20 or 30 demonstrators filed into the room, and began shouting and beating on pots and pans. This went on for perhaps 20 ...
U.S. to let people apply to get off no-fly lists
Post Date: 2007-01-17 18:52:42 by Zipporah
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1 hour, 49 minutes ago The Bush administration said on Wednesday it will launch a new travel security system next month designed to deal with the problem of innocent travelers mistakenly identified as being on U.S. no-fly lists. The Department of Homeland Security Traveler Redress Inquiry Program, dubbed DHS TRIP, is billed as a voluntary one-stop process allowing people to seek a review if they have been wrongly delayed or prevented from boarding a plane or barred from entering or leaving the United States. DHS said in a statement the program will begin February 20 under the management of the Transportation Security Administration. Travel security procedures tightened after the ...
Congress to Send Critics to Jail, Says Richard Viguerie
Post Date: 2007-01-17 17:31:48 by randge
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Congress Wants to Blame the Grassroots for Its Own Corruption MANASSAS, Va., Jan. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement by Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman of http://GrassrootsFreedom.com, regarding legislation currently being considered by Congress to regulate grassroots communications: "In what sounds like a comedy sketch from Jon Stewart's Daily Show, but isn't, the U. S. Senate would impose criminal penalties, even jail time, on grassroots causes and citizens who criticize Congress. "Section 220 of S. 1, the lobbying reform bill currently before the Senate, would require grassroots causes, even bloggers, who communicate to 500 or more members of the ...
Personal data thefts continue at breakneck speed.
Post Date: 2007-01-17 13:06:40 by robin
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January 17, 2006 -- Personal data thefts continue at breakneck speed. WMR has reported in the past on the covert government program to steal personal data to illegally populate Total Information Awareness databases. We now have evidence that law enforcement is purposely delaying theft notifications to the data subjects affected, in a recent case, by as long as almost two months. In yet another major theft, this one affecting as many as 331,800 current and former University of Idaho students and faculty, notification of data subjects was delayed. WMR Data Theft Chart updated. The following letter, which resembles other "boiler plate" letters sent to other data subjects by other ...
When civil liberties vanish, tyranny begins
Post Date: 2007-01-17 01:02:30 by scrapper2
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These are good times for those who want unlimited powers for President Bush and his dual role as commander-in-chief. A supine Congress too fearful to confront the White House is leaving civil liberties framed more than 200 years ago in peril. In seizing unprecedented powers, the Bush administration has dispensed with constitutional rights step by sinister step. The most frightening steps are attacks on the justice system, the very soul of U.S. democracy. The first audacious move was to ignore habeas corpus—the right of an individual to a court challenge of the government's right to incarcerate. Imagine this: Claiming world terrorism gave him this power, President Bush enabled ...
White House Pushes Out Another Prosecutor, Replacing Without Senate Approval [under a provision of the Patriot Act]
Post Date: 2007-01-16 12:51:17 by Brian S
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January 15, 2007, 12:14 PM Strange days? Less than a week after news broke that the Bush administration has forced the resignation of San Diego U.S. attorney Carole Lam, we learn that it has done the same to Daniel Bogden, U.S. attorney for Nevada. According to today's Las Vegas Review-Journal, no one seems to know why he's been asked to leave before his term expires in 2008. As in Lam's ouster, there appear to be no charges of wrongdoing against Bogden. An anonymous source inside Bogden's office told the Review-Journal that his management style had led to "low morale." However, the source said that was likely "partly Bogden's fault and partly the ...
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