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American cops taped torturing drug suspect - LISTEN!
Post Date: 2006-05-28 00:00:39 by Zipporah
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http://wms.scripps.com/knoxville/siler/siler.mp3 When Tennessee law enforcement officials showed up at the home of Lester Siler, who they suspected of drug use, they asked Lester's wife and son to leave. They didn't know that Lester's wife had turned on a tape recorder in the kitchen. When Lester exercised his constitutional right not to sign a consent to search his house, these officers spent the next two hours torturing him. They beat him with bats and guns, held loaded guns to his head, threatened to shoot him, dunked his head in the toilet, burned him with lighters, attached his testicles to a battery charger, threatened to cut off his fingers, and threatened to "go get" his ...
Top 10 Signs of the Impending U.S. Police State
Post Date: 2006-05-27 21:48:02 by Zipporah
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From secret detention centers to warrantless wiretapping, Bush and Co. give free rein to their totalitarian impulses. Is the U.S. becoming a police state? Here are the top 10 signs that it may well be the case.1. The Internet ClampdownOne saving grace of alternative media in this age of unfettered corporate conglomeration has been the internet. While the masses are spoon-fed predigested news on TV and in mainstream print publications, the truth-seeking individual still has access to a broad array of investigative reporting and political opinion via the world-wide web. Of course, it was only a matter of time before the government moved to patch up this crack in the sky.Attempts to ...
"The scum that voted for Hayden"
Post Date: 2006-05-27 20:00:29 by Zipporah
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"Thank Dog we've got an opposition party! Huh?" Grouped By Vote Position YEAs ---78 Akaka (D-HI) Alexander (R-TN) Allard (R-CO) Allen (R-VA) Baucus (D-MT) Bennett (R-UT) Biden (D-DE) Bingaman (D-NM) Bond (R-MO) Brownback (R-KS) Bunning (R-KY) Burns (R-MT) Burr (R-NC) Byrd (D-WV) Carper (D-DE) Chafee (R-RI) Chambliss (R-GA) Coburn (R-OK) Cochran (R-MS) Coleman (R-MN) Collins (R-ME) Cornyn (R-TX) Craig (R-ID) Crapo (R-ID) DeMint (R-SC) DeWine (R-OH) Domenici (R-NM) Ensign (R-NV) Enzi (R-WY) Feinstein (D-CA) Frist (R-TN) Graham (R-SC) Grassley (R-IA) Gregg (R-NH) Hagel (R-NE) Hatch (R-UT) Hutchison (R-TX) Inhofe (R-OK) Isakson (R-GA) Jeffords (I-VT) Johnson (D-SD) Kohl (D-WI) ...
White House invokes privilege in spy cases
Post Date: 2006-05-27 19:27:36 by Zipporah
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1 hour, 22 minutes ago The Bush administration has asked federal judges in New York and Michigan to dismiss a pair of lawsuits filed over the National Security Agency's domestic eavesdropping program, saying litigating them would jeopardize state secrets. In papers filed late Friday, Justice Department lawyers said it would be impossible to defend the legality of the spying program without disclosing classified information that could be of value to suspected terrorists. National Intelligence Director John Negroponte invoked the state secrets privilege on behalf of the administration, writing that disclosure of such information would cause "exceptionally grave damage" to ...
Business as usual -- 9/11 and the fall of America
Post Date: 2006-05-27 17:46:43 by robin
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Business as usual -- 9/11 and the fall of AmericaBy Jerry MazzaOnline Journal Associate Editor May 26, 2006, 01:01 Under the guise of business as usual, consider the huge improprieties in the securities markets that went unnoticed before and immediately after 9/11/2001, contributing to the attacks’ awful success and America’s subsequent decline.I’m talking about the insider trading behind the “put and call options” scandals that allowed certain individuals to pull in huge profits. Stated as simply as possible, put options were used on stocks that would be hurt by the attack, and call options were used on stocks that would benefit. In the put case you’re betting ...
AT&T leaks sensitive info in NSA suit
Post Date: 2006-05-27 15:05:47 by Zipporah
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Lawyers for AT&T accidentally released sensitive information while defending a lawsuit that accuses the company of facilitating a government wiretapping program, CNET http://News.com has learned. AT&T's attorneys this week filed a 25-page legal brief striped with thick black lines that were intended to obscure portions of three pages and render them unreadable (click here for PDF). But the obscured text nevertheless can be copied and pasted inside some PDF readers, including Preview under Apple Computer's OS X and the xpdf utility used with X11. Credit: Declan McCullagh/CNET >http://News.com A room in this AT&T switching center in downtown San Francisco at 611 ...
H.R. 4752: Universal National Service Act of 2006 (Feb 2006) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2006-05-27 13:22:08 by robin
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109th U.S. Congress (2005-2006) H.R. 4752: Universal National Service Act of 2006Introduced:Feb 14, 2006Sponsor:Rep. Charles Rangel [D-NY]Status:Introduced (By Rep. Charles Rangel [D-NY])This text was automatically converted from PDF format. Formatting glitches are a result of that process.Return to Bill Status | Download PDF | Full Text on THOMAS I
109TH CONGRESS
H. R. 4752
2D SESSION
To provide for the common defense by requiring all persons in the United
States, including women, between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform
a period of military service or a period of civilian service in furtherance
of the national defense and homeland security, and for other ...
Making Hay(den) While They Shun Signs
Post Date: 2006-05-27 12:58:21 by robin
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Making Hay(den) While They Shun Signs The Democrats' flight from 9/11 by Niranjan Ramakrishnan Bertie Wooster: Were you frightfully bright as a kid, Jeeves? Jeeves: My mother thought me intelligent, sir. Bertie Wooster: You can't go by that. My mother thought me intelligent! - from a Wodehouse novel, a rough recollection If I am one of the 200 million whose phone records have been tracked by the government, Gen. Michael Hayden has probably come across my name, but I am unable to say I reciprocated his interest. He only came up on my radar screen when he mounted his unapologetic defense a few months ago of the warrantless phone-tapping program. It says something about a country when a ...
The NSA's political fiction
Post Date: 2006-05-27 12:50:50 by robin
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The NSA's political fiction By Annalee newitz › unsealtheevidence@techsploitation.com TECHSPLOITATION Here's what disturbs me: In light of recent revelations that the National Security Agency has been illegally collecting vast databases of information about every single phone call made in the United States since late 2001, only 53 percent of US citizens polled by Newsweek think the government has gone too far in its efforts to stop terrorism. That's a majority, but not a very large one. And in the same poll, 41 percent said they thought spying on phone calls made to and from everyone in the country was necessary. This arouses the same sinking feeling I got many years ago when I was a ...
Lawmaker Raid May Come Back to Bite Bush
Post Date: 2006-05-27 10:09:50 by aristeides
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Lawmaker Raid May Come Back to Bite Bush Anger in Congress Could Cost The President Some Allies And Curb His Legislative Influence By JEANNE CUMMINGS and BRODY MULLINS May 26, 2006; Page A4 WASHINGTON -- The recent FBI raid of a congressman's office is fueling a power struggle between Congress and the administration that could hobble President Bush in his efforts to move his legislative agenda. In hopes of easing tensions, President Bush yesterday ordered frozen all documents taken by federal agents during Saturday's search of the office of Louisiana Democrat Rep. William Jefferson, who is being investigated for taking bribes. The documents will now be sealed for 45 days, which the ...
House Leaders Concede FBI Right to Search
Post Date: 2006-05-27 10:01:15 by aristeides
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House Leaders Concede FBI Right to Search By LAURIE KELLMAN The Associated Press Saturday, May 27, 2006; 5:03 AM WASHINGTON -- House leaders acknowledged Friday that FBI agents with a court-issued warrant can legally search a congressman's office, but they said they want procedures established after agents with a court warrant took over a lawmaker's office last week. "I want to know exactly what would happen if there is a similar sort of thing" in the Senate, Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said Friday, shortly after summoning Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to his office. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., concurred: "I am confident that in the next 45 days, the ...
(NYPD) Undercover Work Deepens Police-Muslim Tensions
Post Date: 2006-05-27 09:30:51 by Zipporah
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It is no secret to the Muslim immigrants of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, that spies live among them. Almost anyone can rattle off what they regard as the telltale signs of police informers: They like to talk politics. They have plenty of free time. They live in the neighborhood, but have no local relatives. "They think we don't know, but we know who they are," said Linda Sarsour, 26, a community activist. It is another thing for them to be officially revealed. Over the last several weeks, during the trial of a Pakistani immigrant who was convicted on Wednesday of plotting to blow up the Herald Square subway station, Muslims in Bay Ridge learned that two agents of the police had been ...
President Disastro
Post Date: 2006-05-27 05:08:47 by Zoroaster
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The Reactionary Utopian President Disastro May 11, 2006 Our government has to protect us, and how it does so is none of our business. But now we luckily learn how the huge but shadowy National Security Agency does it, thanks to USA Today, which has done a bit of countersnooping in our behalf. Without informing us, and with the cooperation of three telecommunications giants, the NSA has secretly collected records of billions of our phone calls. And it’s still building its database. Nobody’s rights have been violated, President Disastro assures us, acknowledging that yes, he authorized the secret program. For our own good, of course. Don’t worry, it’s all ...
Top 10 Signs of the Impending U.S. Police State
Post Date: 2006-05-26 17:39:24 by Horse
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Is the U.S. becoming a police state? Here are the top 10 signs that it may well be the case. 1. The Internet Clampdown One saving grace of alternative media in this age of unfettered corporate conglomeration has been the internet. While the masses are spoon-fed predigested news on TV and in mainstream print publications, the truth-seeking individual still has access to a broad array of investigative reporting and political opinion via the world-wide web. Of course, it was only a matter of time before the government moved to patch up this crack in the sky. Attempts to regulate and filter internet content are intensifying lately, coming both from telecommunications corporations (who are ...
FBI vs. Congress, Round 2
Post Date: 2006-05-26 17:32:23 by aristeides
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FBI vs. Congress, Round 2 By Paul Kiel - May 26, 2006, 1:50 PM So here's where we are now. Bush's intervention yesterday, sealing the evidence seized Saturday from Rep. William Jefferson's office, likely won't accomplish anything but buy time and aggravate the Justice Department and FBI. And there's a simple reason why. On the one hand, House Speaker Hastert and Jefferson want the documents returned. On the other hand, the FBI and Justice Department absolutely refuse to return the documents. There's simply no middle ground there. Justice Department officials feel strongly enough about it that some senior officials were prepared to resign if Bush ordered the documents returned. FBI and ...
Ayn Rand And Murray Rothbard: Can't We All Just Get Along?
Post Date: 2006-05-26 15:59:01 by Mind_Virus
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Ayn Rand And Murray Rothbard: Can't We All Just Get Along? by Shawn M. Stottlemyer Many scholars who recognize that the Austrian School of Economics and the Philosophy of Objectivism have so many great things in common with one another have begun to build bridges between the two schools of thought. The similarities arise in their preferred outcomes of little or no government and the best way for society to operate economically and socially. Laissez-faire economics provides the best and only moral way for individual human beings to flourish in society. Both the Austrian School and Objectivism promote the idea that human beings act of their own free will and conscience and that this is what ...
Bush Orders FBI-Congress Documents Sealed
Post Date: 2006-05-26 00:14:31 by Zipporah
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President Bush, right, shakes hands with Speaker of the House Rep. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., before delivering his speechat the Arie Crown Theatre in McCormick Place, in a Monday, May 22, 2006 photo in Chicago. House Speaker Dennis Hastert demanded Wednesday, May 24, 2006, that the FBI surrender documents it seized and remove agents involved in the weekend raid of Rep. William Jefferson's office, under what lawmakers of both parties said were unconstitutional circumstances. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush stepped into the Justice Department's constitutional confrontation with Congress on Thursday and ordered that documents seized in an FBI raid on a ...
Porter Goss Resignation 'Mystery Solved: DC9 WITH 5.5 TONS OF COCAINE WAS CIA PLANE
Post Date: 2006-05-25 22:58:18 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Porter Goss Resignation 'Mystery Solved: DC9 WITH 5.5 TONS OF COCAINE WAS CIA PLANE Click for Full Text!
President Disastro
Post Date: 2006-05-25 22:16:37 by Rube Goldberg
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President Disastro May 11, 2006 Our government has to protect us, and how it does so is none of our business. But now we luckily learn how the huge but shadowy National Security Agency does it, thanks to USA Today, which has done a bit of countersnooping in our behalf. Without informing us, and with the cooperation of three telecommunications giants, the NSA has secretly collected records of billions of our phone calls. And it’s still building its database. Nobody’s rights have been violated, President Disastro assures us, acknowledging that yes, he authorized the secret program. For our own good, of course. Don’t worry, it’s all compatible with the laws, the ...
MADSEN: NSA SNOOPING ON THE INTERNET
Post Date: 2006-05-25 18:58:00 by aristeides
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May 25, 2006 -- The most privacy-invasive technology that NSA is using to conduct vacuum cleaning of phone calls, e-mail, faxes, and Voice of IP calls is the use of downstream switches that disassemble and reassemble packets after they pass through commercial packet assemblers-disassemblers (PADs). By doing this, NSA can choose what transmissions are reassembled and sent on to their destination. Suspicious packets are held for storage and analysis. Internet users who are experiencing lost emails can thank this technology, which throws a virtual digital checkpoint on major Internet backbones. NSA is using downstream PADs provided by Narus, NICE, and Verisign. WMR has also been informed that ...
Bush Orders FBI-Congress Documents Sealed
Post Date: 2006-05-25 15:30:25 by Brian S
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(05-25) 12:23 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) -- President Bush stepped into the Justice Department's constitutional confrontation with Congress on Thursday and ordered that documents seized in an FBI raid on a congressman's office be sealed for 45 days. The president directed that no one involved in the investigation have access to the documents under seal and that they remain in the custody of the solicitor general. Bush's move was described as an attempt to reach a cooling off period in a heated confrontation between his administration and leaders of the House and Senate. "This period will provide both parties more time to resolve the issues in a way that ensures that materials ...
[LWAN]: It Means Exactly What it Seems to Say
Post Date: 2006-05-25 14:29:27 by Neil McIver
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My favorite judicial issue is Jury Nullification. That's when ordinary people like you and me, while seated on a jury, decide to find an accused not guilty even in the face of overwhelming evidence against him, doing so out of a conscientious opinion that the law which was broken is immoral and should not be enforced. So I was pleased to have the opportunity to dialog recently with a candidate for Circuit Court Judge on the issue. While no one would appreciate jury nullification in the case of unwarranted assault or cold blooded murder of innocents (which barring a stacked jury in a racially charged society is an unrealistic scenario) there are often cases of morally innocent being charged ...
Conservative Top 50 Rock Songs
Post Date: 2006-05-25 12:24:46 by Mind_Virus
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May 25, 2006 Conservative Top 50 Following is National Review's list of its top 50 conservative rock songs, with the magazine's explanations of its choices. 1. "Won't Get Fooled Again," by The Who. The conservative movement is full of disillusioned revolutionaries; this could be their theme song, an oath that swears off naive idealism once and for all. "There's nothing in the streets / Looks any different to me / And the slogans are replaced, by—the—bye. . . . Meet the new boss / Same as the old boss." The instantly recognizable synthesizer intro, Pete Townshend's ringing guitar, Keith Moon's pounding drums, and Roger Daltrey's wailing vocals make this one ...
Hastert aide: Probe rumor is retaliation
Post Date: 2006-05-25 10:34:39 by aristeides
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Hastert aide: Probe rumor is retaliation WASHINGTON, May 25 (UPI) -- An aide to U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., claims news reports Hastert is being probed in a lobbying scandal is payback by the Justice Department. Wednesday night, ABC News reported sources at the Justice Department said Hastert was among those involved in a probe of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. In an unusual move, the department very quickly issued a denial. Speaking to The Chicago Sun-Times, Hastert's deputy chief of staff Mike Stokke said he didn't blame ABC News for bad reporting but rather questioned the timing of the "leak." He referred to a stinging challenge Hastert and House ...
Bush's China Syndrome: Hypocrisy, History and Twelve Kinds of Hell
Post Date: 2006-05-25 08:18:21 by loner
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Bush's China Syndrome: Hypocrisy, History and Twelve Kinds of Hell Wednesday, 24 May 2006 The sick-making hypocrisy of the Bush Regime is no surprise, of course: it's on display every minute of every day, from Dick Cheney's sermonizing at Russia about democracy on his way to schmooze oil deals out of Central Asian tyrants to Condi Rice's stern lectures to the world about "outside interference in Iraq" to all the Orwellian-tagged policy initiatives and laws ("Clean Air," "Healthy Forests," "PATRIOT Act") whose positive appellations are the opposite of their sinister substance. So common are the lies tumbling out of their mouths that it's hardly worth ...
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