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BREAKING: McCain Reaches Agreement With Bush On Military Tribunals
Post Date: 2006-09-21 16:12:09 by aristeides
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BREAKING: McCain Reaches Agreement With Bush On Military Tribunals NBC News reports that President Bush and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) have reached a deal on military tribunals. Details of the compromise have yet to be released, but according to news accounts, “the White House has dropped its insistence on redefining the obligations of the United States under the Geneva Conventions.” No word yet on whether Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) has also agreed to the compromise. Specter earlier took issue with the McCain, Warner, and Graham position: I disagree with Senator McCain, Graham and Warner and the president trying to eliminate habeas corpus, that is ...
States Say New IDs Could Cost Billions
Post Date: 2006-09-21 13:30:27 by Brian S
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(09-21) 08:43 PDT Columbus, Ohio (AP) -- New federal security rules for issuing driver's licenses could cost $11 billion to implement, raising concerns among states about paying for the changes, according to a national survey of states released Thursday. "There's no question that state legislators believe driver's licenses should be as secure as is possible," said William Pound, executive director of the National Conference of State Legislatures which helped conduct the survey. "The $11 billion question is, 'Who's going to pay for it?'" The requirements — which are not final — are part of the Real ID Act of 2005, which grew out of a recommendation by the ...
Justice Dept. Asks Appeals Court to Immediately Dismiss Lawsuit Over Warrantless Eavesdropping
Post Date: 2006-09-21 13:13:35 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON Sep 21, 2006 (AP)— The Bush administration asked an appeals court Thursday to step in immediately and dismiss a lawsuit over the government's warrantless eavesdropping program, calling a lower judge's ruling dangerous and wrong. The Justice Department asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn the decision earlier this month by U.S. District Judge Garr King in Portland, Ore., that kept the suit alive. Government attorneys argued that continuing the case would risk the disclosure of "highly sensitive foreign intelligence information." The lawsuit was filed by the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, which had a chapter in Ashland, Ore., that went out of ...
Gold Fringed Flag
Post Date: 2006-09-21 13:06:19 by richard9151
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Gold Fringed Flag As you read the following information, please remember what you learned about Federal Zones in Who Controls the United States, Part 2, and pay particular attention to this; The flags displayed in State courts and courts of the United States have gold or yellow fringes. That is your WARNING that you are entering into a foreign enclave … That foreign enclave is the Federal Zone, and it is under the jurisdiction of the President of the United States. That court is a courts martial court, and YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS OR YOU WOULD NOT BE IN THAT COURT! The problem, of course, is that you contracted into the court under Social Security, and gave up your rights for a ...
Bush Administration And Its Allies Seek to Restrict Detainees’ Access to Courts
Post Date: 2006-09-20 22:12:14 by Brian S
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Although the effort has been partly obscured by the highly publicized wrangling over military commissions for war crimes trials, the Bush administration and its allies in Congress are trying to use the same legislation to strip federal courts of their authority to review the detentions of almost all terrorism suspects. Both the legislation introduced on behalf of the administration and the competing bill sponsored by a group of largely Republican opponents in the Senate include a provision that would bar foreigners held abroad from using the federal trial courts for challenges to detention known as habeas corpus lawsuits. If the provision was enacted, it would mean that all of the lawsuits ...
BREAKING: House Committee REVOTES Passes Bush Torture Bill (THEY HELD COMMITTEE REVOTE WHILE 2 DEMS OUT OF THE ROOM!) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2006-09-20 21:08:39 by aristeides
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BREAKING: House Committee REVOTES Passes Bush Torture Bill by MediaFreeze [Subscribe] Wed Sep 20, 2006 at 04:23:02 PM PDT UNBELIEVABLE! More shenanigans in the House. Seems like the Republicans have REVOTED on the Bush Torture Bill and narrowly passed it having waited until two Dems were out of the room. Goodbye democracy, it was nice while it lasted. LINK: BREAKING: - House Judiciary Reconsiders, Backs Bush Torture Bill, By Justin Rood - September 20, 2006, 5:28 PM The House Judiciary Committee just reversed itself, calling a re-vote and passing a controversial detainee treatment bill that has White House backing, according to House sources. Earlier today, the panel had voted down the ...
Diebold's Proper Access Controls = Mini-Bar Key Princeton Professor Says Key To Gain Entry To Memory Card Is Standard Key Found Anywhere
Post Date: 2006-09-20 20:00:04 by Zipporah
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Diebold's Proper Access Controls = Mini-Bar KeyPrinceton Professor Says Key To Gain Entry To Memory Card Is Standard Key Found Anywhere Guest Blogged by John Gideon The UK's SC News reported today that Princeton's Professor Felten discovered that the key to gain entry to the memory card slot on the Diebold AccuVote TS is the same key that you may have to open your desk drawer, filing cabinet or even a hotel mini-bar [emphasis added]: "The access panel door on a Diebold AccuVote-TS voting machine - the door that protects the memory card that stores the votes and is the main barrier to the injection of a virus - can be opened with a standard key that is widely available on ...
MARYLAND BOARD OF ELECTIONS WEBSITE SCRUBBED! Primary Election Results All Zeroed Out!
Post Date: 2006-09-20 19:57:12 by Zipporah
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MARYLAND BOARD OF ELECTIONS WEBSITE SCRUBBED!Primary Election Results All Zeroed Out! Results from last Tuesday's Primary Election in Maryland (which was in and of itself a debacle), have apparently been scrubbed from the Maryland Board of Elections website! As of right now, 6:36pm ET, no election totals are currently available on the site after they've previously been there all week as counting has continued. I'm currently on the air and thus not able to look into it further, so I've not been able to get any explanation for this. But I thought you should know. A screenshot from one of the pages (they are all currently zeroed out!) is below… UPDATE 7:23pm ET: Courtesy ...
Getting closer to Uncle Sam
Post Date: 2006-09-20 19:07:24 by Arete
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Public kept in dark as business leads talks about North American integration While the media were busy obsessing over rumours of a budding romance between Condoleezza Rice and Peter MacKay last week, a more significant relationship was developing behind closed doors. Away from the spotlight, from Sept. 12 to 14, in Banff Springs, Minister of Public Safety Stockwell Day and Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor met with U.S. and Mexican government officials and business leaders to discuss North American integration at the second North American Forum. According to leaked documents, the guest list included such prominent figures as U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Mexican Secretary of ...
Stephen Harper's "Quisling" government pursues further talks for U.S. take-over of Canada
Post Date: 2006-09-20 08:31:43 by aristeides
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Stephen Harper's "Quisling" government pursues further talks for U.S. take-over of Canada by Don Nordin September 16, 2006The Canadian Media organization elites cover-up the biggest scandal in Canadian history What would you think if it was announced that Canada was to cease as an independent country as early as 2007? Would it matter to you? Would you want to know who was responsible? What would you do? Well, during the last week there have been announcements from at least two sources that Canada will soon cease to exist as a sovereign country. The first notice I received was in the form of an Aug. 18 email from Connie Fogal, leader of the Canadian Action Party. The email ...
GOP Dissidents' Detainee Bill May Face Filibuster; Bush's Warrantless Wiretapping Program May Be In Jeopardy
Post Date: 2006-09-20 01:09:33 by Brian S
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Frist Warns GOP Opponents of Bush's Proposal They Must Accept Two Key Provisions Wednesday, September 20, 2006; A04 Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist signaled yesterday that he and other White House allies will filibuster a bill dealing with the interrogation and prosecution of detainees if they cannot persuade a rival group of Republicans to rewrite key provisions opposed by President Bush. Frist's chief of staff, Eric M. Ueland, called the dissidents' bill "dead." With Congress scheduled to adjourn in nine days, delaying tactics such as a filibuster could kill the drive to enact detainee legislation before the Nov. 7 elections, a White House priority. Bush faced still more ...
Federal Appeals Court Says Welfare Applicants' Houses Can Be Searched Without Warrants
Post Date: 2006-09-19 20:58:22 by Brian S
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(09-19) 15:01 PDT San Francisco (AP) -- San Diego County investigators can search welfare applicants' houses without warrants to prevent fraud and ensure they are eligible for assistance, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. Welfare advocates unsuccessfully claimed the searches, which include peeking in closets and cabinets, are unconstitutional. Under the program adopted in 1997 to cut down on fraud, unarmed investigators from the district attorney's office arrive unannounced at applicants' houses to verify assets. They also conduct interviews, determine if eligible dependents live there and certify an "absent" parent does not live there. The American Civil Liberties ...
Founding Father's Original Tax Plan
Post Date: 2006-09-19 19:38:43 by Dakmar
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Statement of John William Kurowski Founder Of The American Constitutional Research Service Before the Committee on Ways and Means United States House of Representatives June 1995Mr. Chairman and Members of this Committee: The subject of tax reform was extensively debated by the Founders of our country. I do not know if other participants in these Hearings have take the time to research the accounts of these historical debates when formulating the suggestions they will present to this Committee, but, having researched the Founders' original tax reform package, I am inclined to believe its fundamental principals are as valid today as when they were put into practice over two hundred years ...
Attorney General Gonzales Calls For Law To Require Internet Companies To Preserve Customer Data
Post Date: 2006-09-19 15:15:56 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON – Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday that Congress should require Internet service providers to preserve customer records, asserting that prosecutors need them to fight child pornography. Testifying to a Senate panel, Gonzales acknowledged the concerns of some company executives who say legislation might be overly intrusive and encroach on customers' privacy rights. But he said the growing threat of child pornography over the Internet was too great. “This is a problem that requires federal legislation,” Gonzales told the Senate Banking Committee. “We need information. Information helps us makes cases.” He called the government's lack of ...
MADSEN: ISP'S BLOCKING ACCESS TO WAYNE MADSEN REPORT?
Post Date: 2006-09-18 19:20:43 by aristeides
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Sep. 16, 2006 -- WMR has received a number of emails from readers stating that access to this site is being restricted by a number of Internet Service Providers (ISPs). The ISPs involved in restricting access are local and global. One reader who has repeatedly encountered the message "Server not found" when trying to access WMR has found a work around by using the free anonymous proxy server https://www.the-cloak.com/login.html?verbose=yes&pin
Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine
Post Date: 2006-09-18 19:12:02 by j.sulli
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Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine Ariel J. Feldman, J. Alex Halderman, and Edward W. Felten Abstract This paper presents a fully independent security study of a Diebold AccuVote-TS voting machine, including its hardware and software. We obtained the machine from a private party. Analysis of the machine, in light of real election procedures, shows that it is vulnerable to extremely serious attacks. For example, an attacker who gets physical access to a machine or its removable memory card for as little as one minute could install malicious code; malicious code on a machine could steal votes undetectably, modifying all records, logs, and counters to be ...
Hotel minibar keys open Diebold voting machines
Post Date: 2006-09-18 14:23:43 by aristeides
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Hotel minibar keys open Diebold voting machines by lambertstrether [Subscribe] Mon Sep 18, 2006 at 10:58:28 AM PDT Oh. My. God. Via Freedom to Tinker: On Wednesday we did a live demo for our Princeton Computer Science colleagues of the vote-stealing software described in our paper and video. Afterward, Chris Tengi, a technical staff member, asked to look at the key that came with the voting machine. He noticed an alphanumeric code printed on the key, and remarked that he had a key at home with the same code on it. The next day he brought in his key and sure enough it opened the voting machine. This seemed like a freakish coincidence -- until we learned how common these keys are. ...
Coffee, Tea or TATP?
Post Date: 2006-09-18 12:21:07 by bluedogtxn
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Keillor: Coffee, tea or TATP Garrison Keillor Syndicated columnist
Garrison Keillor
And now you can't bring your cup of coffee on board the airplane. It's the latest new rule laid down by the nation's security wizards. Everyone knows it's ridiculous - the notion that you can toss together a few liquids and make an explosive is a fiction from late-night movies. You might as well prohibit bald men on the grounds that the evil Lex Luthor was bald and so was Blofeld, the head of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. But we ditch our venti latte in the trash barrel (goodbye, four bucks) and board the flight, and there we read in the paper that aggressive CIA questioning of an al-Qaida bigwig, stripping him, ...
A Very Inconvenient Document
Post Date: 2006-09-18 11:58:49 by bluedogtxn
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A Very Inconvenient Document by Vin Suprynowicz Thanks to a 2004 law authored by U.S. Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., every American school and college that receives federal money must teach about the Constitution on Sept. 17 (the date the document was adopted, in 1787), or the closest school day available. Needless to say, the edict has brought some whimpering. Dan Fuller, director of federal programs for the National School Boards Association, told the Associated Press last year that such dictates interrupt regular lessons on other subjects. (Gaia worship, perhaps? "Recycling IV"? "Multicultural Sensitivity"?) "We don’t need the federal micromanagement," ...
Sen. Graham: White House Held Military Lawyers In 5 Hour Meeting and ‘Tried To Force Them To Sign A Prepared Statement’
Post Date: 2006-09-17 22:27:42 by Zipporah
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Sen. Graham: White House Held Military Lawyers In 5 Hour Meeting and ‘Tried To Force Them To Sign A Prepared Statement’ This morning, President Bush was questioned about Gen. Colin Powell’s letter criticizing White House legislation that would authorize torture. Bush tried to downplay Powell’s letter by pointing to another letter signed by the military’s top uniformed lawyers saying they supported Bush’s plan: BUSH: There’s all kinds of letters coming out — and today, by the way, active duty personnel in the Pentagon, the JAG, supported the concept that I have just outlined to you. But during today’s White House press conference, a reporter ...
Graham Nails Geneva Conventions Argument
Post Date: 2006-09-17 18:59:23 by Zipporah
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While most progressives disagree with Mr. Graham on most issues, he delivers a nearly perfect performance in defense of not tinkering with the Geneva Conventions. Video -WMP Video -QT
(For your viewing pleasure) : America: Freedom to Fascism
Post Date: 2006-09-17 10:58:53 by InsideJob
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LibertyForum Under Investigation?
Post Date: 2006-09-17 10:49:26 by Mind_Virus
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LibertyForum went down Friday night Sept. 15th. The article below is dated Sept. 15, 2006 http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=2449483&page=1 Town Tells White Separatist Singers 'No Hate Here' 'Prussian Blue' Twins Told Their Message Doesn't Play in Montana By BILL REDEKER Sept. 15, 2006 — - In the picturesque northwest corner of Montana only 30 miles from Glacier National Park, signs have begun to appear on windows in the city of Kalispell that proclaim "No Hate Here." What's the fuss all about? At first, it seems difficult to believe that the focus of the campaign is two 14-year-old twin girls. Then it becomes clear. The two teens are those spokeskids for ...
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY - Remarks by Former U.S. Representative Bob Barr
Post Date: 2006-09-17 00:32:06 by Uncle Bill
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FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACYRemarks by U.S. Representative Bob Barr (GA-7)The Conservative Political Action ConferenceSaturday, January 23, 1999 The sound of your freedom disappearing. Hear it? It may be silent. There's no great roar. But it's disappearing, and fast. As we gather today, there is an insidious conspiracy underway just across the Potomac River in our nation's capital. This is not a conspiracy that meets in dark rooms in the dead of night. The co-conspirators don't identify themselves with a secret handshake and a code word. And, therein lies their greatest danger. The conspiracy I'll be discussing today meets in a much different environment. They gather on weekdays -- with ...
Olbermann: Bush's 'rush' to redefine Geneva Conventions may be mostly about 'covering his own backside'
Post Date: 2006-09-16 23:16:31 by robin
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Olbermann: Bush's 'rush' to redefine Geneva Conventions may be mostly about 'covering his own backside' David EdwardsPublished: Saturday September 16, 2006 Keith Olbermann's Friday broadcast on MSNBC featured a long look at the President's contentious Rose Garden press conference on Friday, dubbing it the "Roast Garden," and then pondered whether Bush's urgency to redefine the Geneva Convention had more to do with "covering his own backside" than anything else. At a Friday press conference, an animated President Bush tells reporters that the U.S. program to interrogate terrorist suspects will not continue unless Congress creates new legal definitions for Common Article ...
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