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Tabloid Patriotism
Post Date: 2006-08-06 22:13:49 by BTP Holdings
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Tabloid Patriotism"Lawfully Speaking" Vol. III, Issue No. 2 A Periodic Internet Political Column Written by William H. Huff March 27, 2001 It is not enough anymore to simply report "All The News That's Fit to Print." Most media have an agenda. That’s ok - as long as the reader is fully aware. But just what constitutes "fully-awareness?" The problem is, even those who have good intent are not equipping their readers for critical thinking and informed lawful action. They are so narrow in their own general knowledge as well as political acumen that they have no choice but to be shallow. They don't realize that America would have few problems of such ...
Kennedy: Jury's Out on U.S. Democracy
Post Date: 2006-08-06 17:55:50 by Horse
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The United States is not making the case for freedom, democracy and Western law to the rest of the world, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy said Saturday. "Make no mistake, there's a jury that's out. In half the world, the verdict is not yet in. The commitment to accept the Western idea of democracy has not yet been made, and they are waiting for you to make the case," Kennedy said in an address to the American Bar Association. Kennedy, 70, said he fears many parts of the world are not yet convinced that the American form of government as designed by the framers of the Constitution guarantees a better way of life. "Our best security, our only security, is in the world ...
Panic in Detroit
Post Date: 2006-08-06 06:46:21 by loner
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In Dearborn, Michigan, Arab demonstrators are holding up portraits of Sheik Hassan Nasralla, “chanting his name and Hezbollah,” according to the Detroit Free Press. “We find any support for murderous terrorist organizations like al-Qaida or Hezbollah very disappointing, if not disturbing,” Eric Straus, chief of the counterterrorism unit at the U.S. attorney’s office in Detroit, told the newspaper. “Our office’s No. 1 priority is preventing another terrorist attack,” reports the Associated Press. Of course, Hezbollah is not “al-Qaeda,” the infamous CIA-ISI made-to-measure terror group. Hezbollah is a legitimate resistance group, completely ...
Meet another Marvin in the Bush family tree
Post Date: 2006-08-05 22:01:47 by Eoghan
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Although we know that George W. Bush's brother Marvin is up to his neck in dubious business deals and the strange death of his housekeeper, who was said to have been run over by her own driverless SUV in Marvin's driveway and killed, it is interesting to point to another Marvin in the Bush family -- matriarch Barbara Bush's father Marvin Pierce. Pierce was the publisher of McCall's and Redbook magazines. He married Pauline Robinson in 1918. Pauline's father had served on the Ohio Supreme Court. One of Marvin's ancestors, third cousin, three times removed, was President Franklin Pierce. The Pierces had three children, Barbara being the youngest. On September 19, 1949, Marvin was driving to ...
Davenport Police Confiscate Little Flagsticks to Protect Cheney, They Say
Post Date: 2006-08-05 21:40:58 by DuQuoigne
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Cathy Berta is a retired elementary schoolteacher. At 66, she’s also a member of Progressive Action for the Common Good of the Quad Cities. When she heard that Vice President Cheney was coming to Davenport, Iowa, on July 17, she decided to heed the group’s protest call. “I knew it was going to be extremely hot that day, but I said I’m going to take a stand,” she recalls. She joined about 120 people along River Road next to the Mississippi, and they marched part way toward the home where Cheney was doing a fundraiser for the Republican House candidate, Mike Whalen. Berta was carrying a sign that said: “No, You Can’t Have My Rights, I’m Still Using ...
Will Bush and Gonzales get away with it?
Post Date: 2006-08-03 21:41:37 by Zipporah
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Will Bush and Gonzales get away with it? The pilot and Vietnam POW -- a staunch Republican -- who pushed through the War Crimes Act of 1996 is appalled that the Bush administration, facing possible prosecution for war crimes, is devising a legal escape hatch. By Michael Scherer Aug. 02, 2006 | Retired Navy pilot Mike Cronin knows enough about torture to know it doesn't work. After being shot down over North Vietnam in 1967, he spent six years enduring interrogations in the Hanoi Hilton, the notorious holding block for American prisoners of war. His neck and ankles were bound together with rope, causing him to lose consciousness. The nerves and bones in his wrists were crushed. His ...
US supplying Israel with NSA signals intelligence
Post Date: 2006-08-03 20:56:19 by Zipporah
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A report by columnist Sidney Blumenthal in Salon claims that Israel is receiving intelligence from the US's National Security Agency. Blumenthal claims to be in touch with "a national security official with direct knowledge of the operation" to supply Israel with signals intelligence from American assets to help it monitor armament transfers from Syria and Iran to Hezbollah. He states that President Bush has approved the intelligence sharing. Bush is being influenced by neoconservatives in his administration led by Vice President Dick Cheney's staff and Elliot Abrams, senior director for the Near East on the National Security Council. The group, according to Blumenthal, seeks to ...
Guantanamo detainees may remain indefinitely: Gonzalez
Post Date: 2006-08-03 11:09:41 by aristeides
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Guantanamo detainees may remain indefinitely: Gonzalez Wed Aug 2, 10:06 PM ET WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said the US government could "indefinitely" hold foreign 'enemy combatants' at sites like the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. "We can detain any combatants for the duration of the hostilities," said Gonzales, speaking to the Senate Armed Services Committee. "If we choose to try them, that's great. If we don't choose to try them, we can continue to hold them," he said. Yet neither the Bush administration nor the US military wants "to remain the world's jailers indefinitely," he said. A Supreme Court ...
FREEDOM TO FASCISM - AARON RUSSO'S MUST-SEE FILM
Post Date: 2006-08-03 09:50:15 by Stephen Lendman
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Freedom to Fascism - A Must-See Film by Aaron Russo - by Stephen Lendman Aaron Russo has produced an important and powerful documentary film titled Freedom to Fascism that should be must viewing for everyone. It's now playing in theaters in selective cities around the US and hopefully will be shown abroad as well as what happens in the most powerful country on earth affects all others for better or worse. No one seeing this film will doubt it's frighteningly for the worst. The film first focuses on the US Internal Revenue Service showing that the federal income tax on an individual's wage-paid labor is illegal and unconstitutional because there's no law written requiring that anyone pay ...
Senators Skeptical of Bush Administration's Tribunal Plans
Post Date: 2006-08-02 12:16:21 by Brian S
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(08-02) 09:01 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) -- The Bush administration's initial proposal to prosecute suspected terrorists drew continued skepticism Wednesday from lawmakers, with a key GOP senator contending that Congress must be given more authority to determine tribunal procedures. Steven Bradbury, the top legal adviser at the Justice Department, told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the administration's legal proposal was still under review but did not say when it would be finished. Judiciary Chairman Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said he would oppose any legislation that would authorize the defense secretary to determine what crimes may be tried by military tribunals — reportedly a ...
Police spies chosen to lead war protest
Post Date: 2006-08-02 04:39:51 by Horse
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Two Oakland police officers working undercover at an anti-war protest in May 2003 got themselves elected to leadership positions in an effort to influence the demonstration, documents released Thursday show. The department assigned the officers to join activists protesting the U.S. war in Iraq and the tactics that police had used at a demonstration a month earlier, a police official said last year in a sworn deposition. At the first demonstration, police fired nonlethal bullets and bean bags at demonstrators who blocked the Port of Oakland's entrance in a protest against two shipping companies they said were helping the war effort. Dozens of activists and longshoremen on their way to work ...
WORST EVER SECURITY FLAW FOUND IN DIEBOLD TS VOTING MACHINE (photos)
Post Date: 2006-08-01 00:05:15 by Zipporah
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WORST EVER SECURITY FLAW FOUND IN DIEBOLD TS VOTING MACHINE Alan DechertPICTURES (Click on thumbnail. Click again on lower half of picture for high resolution) SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA -- “This may be the worst security flaw we have seen in touch screen voting machines,” says Open Voting Foundation president, Alan Dechert. Upon examining the inner workings of one of the most popular paperless touch screen voting machines used in public elections in the United States, it has been determined that with the flip of a single switch inside, the machine can behave in a completely different manner compared to the tested and certified version. “Diebold has made the testing and ...
Hizbollah says hit Israeli ship, Israel denies
Post Date: 2006-07-31 20:01:57 by Brian S
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BEIRUT, July 31 (Reuters) - Hizbollah said its guerrillas hit an Israeli warship with rockets off the coast of the south Lebanese port city of Tyre on Monday, but an Israeli source quickly denied the claim. Hizbollah said in a statement the attack was the start of its retaliation for Sunday's bombing of a building in south Lebanon that killed 54 civilians, including 37 children. In Jerusalem, an Israeli security source said no Israeli warships were struck by rockets off the coast of Lebanon. "The Islamic resistance attacked with its blessed rockets an Israel warship ... with a crew of 53 officer and soldier off the shores of Tyre and achieved a direct hit," Hizbollah's ...
ALL THAT’S GIVEN UP IN THE NAME OF SECURITY
Post Date: 2006-07-31 13:33:46 by Eoghan
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Two days ago we made available to the public news that one of our members, Russell Tice, a former NSA Senior Analyst, had been served with a subpoena asking him to appear before a federal grand jury regarding the criminal investigation of recent disclosures which involved NSA warrantless eavesdropping. Our announcement was followed up in both the main and alternative media, and started heated discussions among online activists. We have received e-mails and letters from people who expressed their support and solidarity with Mr. Tice and other patriotic public servants who have chosen to place our nation, its Constitution, its liberty, thus its public’s right to know, above their future ...
All That's Given Up in the Name of Security [Sibel Edmonds]
Post Date: 2006-07-31 09:33:27 by robin
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All That's Given Up in the Name of Security by Sibel Edmonds and William Weaver Two days ago we made available to the public news that one of our members, Russell Tice, a former NSA senior analyst, had been served with a subpoena asking him to appear before a federal grand jury regarding the criminal investigation of recent disclosures that involved NSA warrantless eavesdropping. Our announcement was followed up in both the mainstream and alternative media, and started heated discussions among online activists. We have received e-mails and letters from people who expressed their support and solidarity with Mr. Tice and other patriotic public servants who have chosen to place our nation, ...
Animated NSA Cartoon (I just called to say...)
Post Date: 2006-07-31 02:11:16 by Neil McIver
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AN INTERNATIONALIST PRIMER: Edward Mandell House, Texan, Founder of CFR - "The Constitution, product of 18th century minds and a quasi-classical, medieval conception of republics, was thoroughly outdated; that the country would be better off if the Constitution could be scrapped and rewritten"
Post Date: 2006-07-31 02:00:25 by Uncle Bill
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More on Council on Foreign Relations An Internationalist Primerby William Norman Grigg Writing in the July 17, 1926 issue of The Saturday Evening Post, author Arthur D. Howden Smith presented a profile of an enigmatic man named "Colonel" Edward Mandell House. Although few Americans beyond the rarefied realms of the political elite knew much of House, the austere Texan had played a decisive role in many of the most important policy decisions made by President Woodrow Wilson. On more than one occasion, Wilson described House as his "silent partner," his "second personality," his "independent self." Although this friendship would later disintegrate ...
Threat to Constitution both "Imminent and Real"
Post Date: 2006-07-30 14:36:50 by eyeswideoopen
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Last week, when the American Bar Association (ABA) held a press conference to announce the release of a set of recommendations to the President and the Congress to avoid a Constitutional crisis, I thought it would set the Internet on fire and that my Inbox would be filled with articles and commentaries about it. It didn’t happened. The reason I thought that was because Michael Greco, President of the ABA said the threat to our Constitutional form of government is both imminent and real unless immediate corrective action is taken. That’s a powerful statement and we are well advised to sit up and take notice. The issue that has drawn the concern of the ABA is Presidential ...
The Lincoln Cult’s Latest Cover-Up
Post Date: 2006-07-30 10:42:44 by christine
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On July 19 the Associated Press and Reuter’s reported an "amazing find" at a museum in Allentown, Pennsylvania: A copy of a letter dated March 16, 1861, and signed by Abraham Lincoln imploring the governor of Florida to rally political support for a constitutional amendment that would have legally enshrined slavery in the U.S. Constitution. Actually, the letter is not at all "amazing" to anyone familiar with the real Lincoln. It was a copy of a letter that was sent to the governor of every state urging them all to support the amendment, which had already passed the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, that would have made southern slavery constitutionally ...
Bush submits new terror detainee bill
Post Date: 2006-07-30 09:11:10 by robin
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Hamed Abderrahman Ahmed seen in this Tuesday July 13, 2004 file photograph, in Alcala Meco, Spain. The only Spanish citizen to have been held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, has been ordered to be released from a Spanish jail. The Supreme Court on Monday threw out a terrorism conviction against Hamed Abderrahman Ahmed, saying there was no evidence to back up charges he was a member of al-Qaida. (AP Photo/Denis Doyle, File)By Anne Plummer Flaherty, Associated Press Writer | July 28, 2006WASHINGTON --U.S. citizens suspected of terror ties might be detained indefinitely and barred from access to civilian courts under legislation proposed by the Bush administration, say legal ...
Welcome to the Police State: Bush submits new terror bill
Post Date: 2006-07-29 17:55:00 by Zipporah
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A new AP report shows that Bush has now submitted a new terror bill which now says any U.S. citizen "suspected" of terror ties can now be held "indefinitely". Forget the Bill of Rights. Forget due process. Forget the courts of law. Welcome to our own Guantanamo Bay, right here inside the United States. This is more in Bush and Rove's playbook to step around the ruling of Hamdan, rendering the Supreme Court irrelevant (when Scalia's opinion isn't in the majority). WASHINGTON - U.S. citizens suspected of terror ties might be detained indefinitely and barred from access to civilian courts under legislation proposed by the Bush administration, say legal experts reviewing ...
Threats against judges at all-time high
Post Date: 2006-07-29 09:06:45 by gengis gandhi
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Threats against judges at all-time high By MARK SHERMAN Jul 28, 2006, 00:23 Email this article Printer friendly page Threats against federal judges are on a record-setting pace this year, nearly 18 months after the family of a federal judge was killed in Chicago. U.S. Marshals, who protect the nation's 2,200 federal judges, believe they averted another potential tragedy in the Midwest last year when they helped block the release of a prison inmate who told a judge in a series of sexually charged letters that he was going to take her away. Threats and inappropriate communications have quadrupled over 10 years ago. There were 201 reported such incidents in the 1996 government spending ...
NSA whistleblower subpoenaed by federal grand jury
Post Date: 2006-07-29 09:00:38 by Zipporah
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A former National Security Agency signals intelligence expert has been called before a grand jury, RAW STORY has learned. Russell Tice, an important source for the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times report by James Risen and Eric Lichtblau on the NSA's warrentless eavesdropping activities, was served papers by two FBI agents outside his home on Wednesday, July 26th. Tice must appear in court on August 2nd "to testify and answer questions concerning possible violations of federal criminal law." In a statement issued by the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, of which Tice is a member, he declared "This latest action by the government is designed only for one ...
POLL: Do you believe President Bush's actions justify impeachment? - YES - 273,537 responses
Post Date: 2006-07-29 02:04:53 by Uncle Bill
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Do you believe President Bush's actions justify impeachment? * 273,537 responses Yes, between the secret spying, the deceptions leading to war and more, there is plenty to justify putting him on trial. - 87% No, like any president, he has made a few missteps, but nothing approaching "high crimes and misdemeanors." - 4.3% No, the man has done absolutely nothing wrong. Impeachment would just be a political lynching. - 7.2% I don't know. - 1.8% Karl, have you seen this? Karl? Karl?
Government Begins its Witch Hunt Targeting Whistleblowers
Post Date: 2006-07-28 23:03:47 by robin
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July 28, 2006 -- National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Russell Tice subpoenaed to testify. Release from the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition: Government Begins its Witch Hunt Targeting Whistleblowers On Wednesday, July 26, Russell Tice, former National Security Agency (NSA) intelligence analyst and a member of National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC), was approached outside his home by two FBI agents who served him with a subpoena to testify in front of a federal grand jury. NSWBC has obtained a copy of the subpoena issued for Mr. Tice’s testimony and is releasing it to the public for the first time. The subpoena directs Mr. Tice to appear before the jury on ...
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