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Ex-Bush Official Busts 9/11 Perps at U.W. Historical Society -- Morgan Reynolds Says Some Fear 9/11 Truth Movement Will Win, Triggering the Greatest Constitutional Crisis in U.S. History
Post Date: 2006-05-07 23:50:44 by Arator
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Ex-Bush Official Busts 9/11 Perps at U.W. Historical Society Madison, WI Saturday, May 6, 2006 An enthusiastic standing-room-only crowd packed the Wisconsin Historical Society auditorium Saturday to hear ex-Bush Administration insider Morgan Reynolds prosecute top administration and military officials for the 9/11 inside job. Reynolds to Cheney: "You're BUSTED!" Reynolds indicted Richard Cheney, George W. Bush, former Joint Chiefs Chairman Richard Meyers, confessed WTC demolisher and insurance-fraudster Larry Silverstein, and others for mass murder, conspiracy, and other charges including high treason. The enthusiastic response from the overflow crowd was a de facto vote ...
Grandma Betty in the Slammer!
Post Date: 2006-05-07 15:30:37 by Red Jones
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ORIGINAL AIRDATE: 5/4/2006 INSIDE EDITION talks to Grandma Betty about the frightening night she was arrested on her way home from the supermarket. Betty's husband, Byron accompanies her to the sheriff's department as Betty begins her sentence 10 nights in jail. Getting pulled over by the police late at night can be a very scary experience, especially if it's unclear whether those flashing lights belong to a real cop. Betty Golden, a 69-year-old grandmother of eight, says she followed the advice she had heard in news reports -- she acknowledged the police, but did not pull over till she thought it was safe. However, it's that same advice that got the grandmother into a heap of ...
Torture, Racism, & the Sovereign President - Torture, murder, and assassination have become vital to U.S. empire-building
Post Date: 2006-05-07 12:44:04 by Red Jones
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President
George W. Bush has embedded murder, assassination, torture,
and mistreatment of prisoners into the structure of
the U.S. system of global domination. Many U.S. citizens,
rightly outraged, want to know why this sort of barbaric,
sadistic violence has become an integral part of U.S.
security policy, and what the Administration’s
justification of torture means institutionally for the
future governance of this country. Above all, they want
to know how Bush has been able to avoid impeachment
for committing high crimes.
Here is a select list of typical tortures, ...
The Secret History of George W. Bush: Mission Akkomplished
Post Date: 2006-05-07 12:05:20 by Eoghan
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I blinked at the words on my screen. I had been trolling the internet, looking for reasons why the US does not celebrate its workers on the same day as the rest of the world, even if the origins of that date happen to be profoundly American: 1 May 1886, when demands for an eight-hour working day by Chicago trade unions (mostly made up of European immigrants) were met by violent police repression. When my search engine turned up an unknown website, http://www.secrethistory-georgewbush.com, I almost decided not to explore its contents. Of all Americans, the one least likely to be linked to May Day was George W Bush, notoriously uninterested in history or, for that matter, the working class. ...
Spies Among Us Despite a troubled history, police across the nation are keeping tabs on ordinary Americans
Post Date: 2006-05-06 22:14:35 by Zipporah
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Despite a troubled history, police across the nation are keeping tabs on ordinary Americans By David E. Kaplan 5/8/06 In the Atlanta suburbs of DeKalb County, local officials wasted no time after the 9/11 attacks. The second-most-populous county in Georgia, the area is home to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the FBI's regional headquarters, and other potential terrorist targets. Within weeks of the attacks, officials there boasted that they had set up the nation's first local department of homeland security. Dozens of other communities followed, and, like them, DeKalb County put in for--and got--a series of generous federal counterterrorism grants. The county received ...
Populist #26: Responsibility and War Powers
Post Date: 2006-05-06 20:29:54 by BTP Holdings
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Populist #26 Responsibility and War PowersIt is certainly no longer news that our elected representatives rarely read the laws they pass, let alone think through the possible applications and implications of those laws before casting their votes. Our elites thrive on an accumulation of power that results from the disintegration of our constitutional protections. Our discussion, of late, has focused on this shift from constitutional to arbitrary power in the executive branch; especially in relation to war powers. As a result of this disintegration, we can see that the interests of our rulers generally lie in a direction opposite to that of the will of the People. ...
Free Speech in the Nominal Democracy
Post Date: 2006-05-06 16:13:08 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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“Freedom of speech is the right to be wrong, basically. Sometimes I’m wrong.” These words were reportedly spoken by the historian David Irving in an interview from his Austrian prison, where he is doing time — years of his life — for “Holocaust denial.” Austria and a few other Western democracies still maintain the position that some opinions are crimes. So, in its way, does democratic Afghanistan, where a few weeks ago a man narrowly escaped a death sentence for converting to Christianity. He was spared only because of Western pressure, notably from President Bush. There has been no such pressure for Irving, whose prosecutor thinks he was dealt with too ...
Judges Challenge Internet Wiretap Rules
Post Date: 2006-05-06 10:56:28 by Zipporah
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Fri May 5, 1:46 PM ET A U.S. appeals panel sharply challenged the Bush administration Friday over new rules making it easier for police and the FBI to wiretap Internet phone calls. A judge said the government's courtroom arguments were "gobbledygook." The skepticism expressed so openly toward the administration's case encouraged civil liberties and education groups that argued that the U.S. is improperly applying telephone-era rules to a new generation of Internet services. "Your argument makes no sense," U.S. Circuit Judge Harry T. Edwards told the lawyer for the Federal Communications Commission, Jacob Lewis. "When you go back to the office, have a big ...
City to consider taking land from Wal-Mart
Post Date: 2006-05-06 08:30:19 by Indrid Cold
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The Hercules City Council will consider whether to use eminent domain to wrest a 17-acre property from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. after the nation's largest retailer rejected a city offer to buy the site with views of San Pablo Bay, city officials said Thursday. The council asked that a "resolution of necessity'' be brought to it for discussion, City Manager Mike Sakamoto said. The matter has been put on the council's May 23 agenda. Efforts to reach council members about Thursday's announcement were unsuccessful. Wal-Mart bought the property overlooking central Hercules in November after another developer received city approvals for a neighborhood shopping center. In February, city ...
U.S. Explains Itself to U.N. on Torture Charges
Post Date: 2006-05-05 22:08:13 by Zipporah
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GENEVA, May 5 — A delegation of American officials came before a United Nations panel on torture today to account for the conduct of the United States in the fight against terrorism since Sept. 11, 2001. The American officials, who were part of an unusually large group sent to deliver a report on the country's compliance with the Convention Against Torture, offered a careful and familiar set of responses to questions that the panel posed. Despite abuses in places like the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, the American officials denied that the government systematically mistreated prisoners and they reiterated a commitment to a global ban on torture. John B. Bellinger III, the legal ...
Principal bars Coral Springs student from singing anti-Bush song at talent show
Post Date: 2006-05-05 20:06:00 by Zipporah
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South Florida Sun-Sentinel May 5, 2006 A 10-year-old Coral Springs girl won't be allowed to sing a controversial President Bush-bashing ballad at her school talent show after her principal deemed it inappropriate and too political. The song, Dear Mr. President, performed and co-written by the singer Pink, criticizes the president for the war in Iraq and other policies, including his stance on gay rights. Parent Nancy Shoul says her daughter Molly should be lauded for choosing lyrics that are full of substance rather than pop music fluff. She said the principal's ban sends a bad message and violates her daughter's right to free speech. "If this was a student singing a ...
U.S. Defends New Internet Wiretap Rules; judge told the govt' its arguments were "gobbledygook"
Post Date: 2006-05-05 13:08:02 by Brian S
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(05-05) 08:44 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- A U.S. appeals panel challenged the Bush administration Friday over new rules making it easier for police and the FBI to wiretap Internet phone calls. One judge told the government its courtroom arguments were "gobbledygook" and invited its lawyer to return to his office and "have a big chuckle." The skepticism expressed so openly toward the government's case during a hearing in U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia emboldened a broad group of civil liberties and education groups who argued that the U.S. improperly applied telephone-era rules to a new generation of Internet services. "Your argument makes no ...
Spy vs. Spy; Neighbors spying on neighbors? Mothers forced to turn in their sons or daughters...
Post Date: 2006-05-05 12:17:44 by Brian S
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Neighbors spying on neighbors? Mothers forced to turn in their sons or daughters? These are images straight out of George Orwell's 1984, or a remote totalitarian state. We don't associate them with the land of the free and the home of the brave, but that doesn't mean they couldn't happen here. A senior congressman, James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), is working quietly but efficiently to turn the entire United States population into informants--by force. Sensenbrenner, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman, has introduced legislation that would essentially draft every American into the war on drugs. H.R. 1528, cynically named "Safe Access to Drug Treatment and Child ...
Watergate Subpoenaed in Hooker Probe
Post Date: 2006-05-05 09:56:06 by aristeides
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Watergate Subpoenaed in Hooker Probe By Justin Rood - May 4, 2006, 7:33 PM I stopped by the Watergate Hotel this afternoon and chatted with Josh Graham, the assistant general manager, about the recent stories swirling around his establishment. According to Graham, the Watergate has received multiple subpoenas in connection with the Wilkes Hookergate scandal. He went on to say that the hotel is complying with those subpoenas but that he couldn't discuss the content of the orders, nor could he discuss details of the investigation, "out of respect for our guests' privacy." The Wall Street Journal had originally reported that investigators "had requested, and been given, ...
Flt 93 LANDED In Cleveland Morning Of 911 (news report transcript)
Post Date: 2006-05-05 08:45:02 by Grumble Jones
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Flt 93 LANDED In Cleveland Morning Of 911 Plane Lands In Cleveland - Bomb Feared Aboard By Eric Margolis 5-5-6 Reported by: 9News Staff Web produced by: Liz Foreman 9/11/01 11:43:57 AM A Boeing 767 out of Boston made an emergency landing Tuesday at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport due to concerns that it may have a bomb aboard, said Mayor Michael R. White. White said the plane had been moved to a secure area of the airport, and was evacuated. United identified the plane as Flight 93. The airline did say how many people were aboard the flight. United said it was also "deeply concerned" about another flight, Flight 175, a Boeing 767, which was bound from Boston to Los ...
UK residents lose Guantanamo case
Post Date: 2006-05-04 14:58:07 by Zipporah
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UK residents lose Guantanamo case Omar Deghayes came to the UK in the 1980s Three UK residents held without trial at Guantanamo Bay have lost a legal challenge over the government's refusal to petition the US for their freedom. Bisher al-Rawi, Jamil el-Banna and Omar Deghayes wanted the High Court to rule the UK had an obligation to intervene. The Foreign Office argues it cannot help the men - detained for more than three years - as they are not British. But it is to make a "security-related request" on behalf of Mr al-Rawi, held at the US-run camp in Cuba since 2003. Lawyers for the 38-year-old Iraqi-born businessman, who has lived in the UK since ...
Dumbed Down Americans: Chattel for Global Tyranny
Post Date: 2006-05-03 16:42:29 by loner
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Wednesday May 03rd 2006, 8:18 am Education in America has done a fine job. “Despite nearly constant news coverage since the war there began in 2003, 63 percent of Americans aged 18 to 24 failed to correctly locate the country on a map of the Middle East. Seventy percent could not find Iran or Israel,” reports National Geographic. “Young Americans just don’t seem to have much interest in the world outside of the U.S.,” mused David Rutherford, a specialist in geography education at the National Geographic Society in Washington. Young Americans are so ill-educated, half of them can’t find New York on a map, let alone Iran and Iraq. “Many young Americans also ...
War With Iran? It would mean the end of our Republic
Post Date: 2006-05-03 11:49:20 by Zipporah
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Thank the gods for the U.S. government, and I mean that at all levels, local, state, and federal. What would we do without them watching out for us 24/7, preparing for whatever threats may come our way, including especially the Great 666 Threat, which is looming fast and furious: "With June 6, 2006, rapidly approaching, authorities in Colorado and elsewhere are carefully watching to see if that date – 6/6/06 – spurs demonstrations or violent activity. They are aware that 666 signifies the Mark of the Beast or the Antichrist to some organizations and believe June 6 is a date that could trigger problems. 'It's been a conscious question among some of our folks, so they've been ...
Endgame for the Constitution
Post Date: 2006-05-02 22:32:59 by loner
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The Bush administration has done more damage to Americans and more harm to America's reputation than any other administration in history. Yet, a majority of Republicans still support Bush. This tells much about blind party loyalty. By encouraging the move offshore of American jobs and manufacturing, Bush has run up tremendous trade deficits that have undermined the world's confidence in the dollar as the reserve currency. Recently, both Chinese and Russian government officials warned of the dollar's shaky status. The fall in confidence in the dollar is evidenced by the sharp run-up in the price of gold. In January 2001 the price of gold was about $240 per ounce. Today the price is $660 per ...
911sites.org has been hacked!
Post Date: 2006-05-02 19:59:23 by Arator
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Your tax dollars at work?
New Army documents reveal US knew of and approved torture before Abu Ghraib scandal
Post Date: 2006-05-02 18:28:03 by Zipporah
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BREAKING HARD -- FROM AN ACLU RELEASE TO RAW STORY. # New Army documents released by the American Civil Liberties Union today reveal that Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez ordered interrogators to "go to the outer limits" to get information from detainees. The documents also show that senior government officials were aware of abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan before the Abu Ghraib scandal broke. "When our leaders allow and even encourage abuse at the 'outer limits', America suffers," said Anthony D. Romero, ACLU Executive Director. "A nation that works to bring freedom and liberty to other parts of the world shouldn't stomach brutality and inhumanity within its ...
The "New Totalitarianism" now defines a desperate neocon end game
Post Date: 2006-05-02 15:48:22 by loner
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As the Bush/neocon kleptocracy disintegrates in a toxic cloud of military defeat, economic bankruptcy, environmental disaster and escalating mega-scandal, its attack on basic American freedoms -- its "New Totalitarianism" -- has escalated to a desperate new level, including brutal Soviet-style prosecutions against non-violent dissidents and an all-out offensive for state secrecy, including an attack on the Internet. In obvious panic and disarray, the GOP right has turned to a time-honored strategy -- kill the messengers. While it slaughters Americans and Iraqis to "bring democracy" to the Middle East, it has made democracy itself public enemy Number One here at home. ...
Watching the Constitution Fade Away
Post Date: 2006-05-02 07:49:29 by Kamala
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Watching the Constitution Fade Away By Paul Craig Roberts The Bush administration has done more damage to Americans and more harm to America's reputation than any other administration in history. Yet, a majority of Republicans still support Bush. This tells much about blind party loyalty. By encouraging the move offshore of American jobs and manufacturing, Bush has run up tremendous trade deficits that have undermined the world's confidence in the dollar as the reserve currency. Recently, both Chinese and Russian government officials warned of the dollar's shaky status. The fall in confidence in the dollar is evidenced by the sharp run-up in the price of gold. In January 2001 the price ...
Wayne Madsen: Renditions continuing
Post Date: 2006-05-01 22:41:10 by Zipporah
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May 1, 2006 -- CIA Boeing 737 still flying secret prisoners around Asia and Europe. A Boeing 737, tail number N368CE, registered to a shadowy company called Premier Aircraft Management and incorporated in North Las Vegas, Nevada, has been sighted in Frankfurt, Germany, Luxembourg, Baghdad, and Kabul in recent months. The Boeing is ostensibly owned by Wells Fargo Bank and was based in Wilmington, Delaware until 2004. The plane was previously registered to a Malaysian firm called Country Heights, based in Seri Kembangan, Malaysia and operated under registration number 9M-LKY. The Boeing has had an interesting history. Once known for flying around VIPs such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Kofi ...
Bush classified 15.6 million documents in one year
Post Date: 2006-05-01 21:52:25 by Zipporah
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Monday 1st May, 2006 Monday 1st May, 2006 More than 80 U.S. government agencies collectively reported making 15.6 million decisions in 2004 to classify information, nearly double the number in 2001. By keeping secret so many directives and actions, the administration has precluded the public -- and Congress -- from knowing about some of the most significant decisions and acts of the White House, the Chicago Tribune reported. In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the administration has based much of its need for secrecy on the imperative of protecting national security at a time of war. Yet experts say President George W. Bush and his closest advisers demonstrated ...
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