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Bush Shuns Patriot Act Requirement; He Says Oversight Rules Are Not Binding
Post Date: 2006-03-24 13:04:04 by Brian S
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In addendum to law, he says oversight rules are not binding March 24, 2006 WASHINGTON -- When President Bush signed the reauthorization of the USA Patriot Act this month, he included an addendum saying that he did not feel obliged to obey requirements that he inform Congress about how the FBI was using the act's expanded police powers. The bill contained several oversight provisions intended to make sure the FBI did not abuse the special terrorism-related powers to search homes and secretly seize papers. The provisions require Justice Department officials to keep closer track of how often the FBI uses the new powers and in what type of situations. Under the law, the administration would ...
Wiretap program to continue, Cheney tells 600 in Tucson
Post Date: 2006-03-24 11:45:42 by Brian S
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Vice President Dick Cheney repeated the Bush Administration's stance on national security yesterday as he spoke to a crowd of 600 at a Tucson fundraising dinner for Sen. Jon Kyl at a local resort. Cheney tied the war in Iraq to the broader war on terror, promised the administration will continue a surveillance program some call illegal, and said tough action is needed in this "time of tremendous consequence." The evening at The Westin La Paloma Resort & Spa, 3800 E. Sunrise Drive, began with a bit of levity as Kyl joked that Cheney was the "straightest shooter in Washington." The vice president accidentally shot a friend in the face last month during a hunting ...
DEATH STAR Redux - the actual lyrics
Post Date: 2006-03-24 11:30:12 by Arator
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The Arab League's site is now up and you can watch their video there. Just click the link above.
My previous attempts to get the lyrics right weren't perfect. I think what follows is closer to the mark:
VERSE 1:
It happened in a galaxy not so far away
When a dark force mounting sets up land for disarray
He who has the will and wants to get their way
Cuts deep into the system, carpe deim - sieze the day
Hack out an empire by hook and by crook
Machiavelli would have gagged at the steps that they took
Improve all instruction, act according to the book
Run a game on the sheeple with the ground that they ...
The Evidence Mounts Daily to Impeach the Liar in Chief!
Post Date: 2006-03-24 11:13:26 by BTP Holdings
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The Evidence Mounts Daily to Impeach the Liar in Chief! By Jim Betker March 24, 2006 After reading this piece which contains excerpts from an interview of Lewis Lapham, Editor Emeritus of Harper's, where he talks about his essay in the March issue of Harper's, I thought it prudent to enter into a little diatribe of my own and spread the blame around a bit for allowing this egregious excuse for a man we call our President to continue on his merry way to the wholesale destruction of the planet and in the process to enslave all of us under the police state rule of the Global Plantation. As the Editors of American Free Press have written about the Global Plantation, You will either submit ...
Domestic Surveillance Case Takes New Turn
Post Date: 2006-03-24 09:39:14 by Phaedrus
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PORTLAND, OR 2006-03-22 The Portland lawsuit challenging the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program has taken a turn that makes it sound more like a thriller for the silver screen than a case for constitutional law books. One lawyer says someone may have broken into his home and his office. And the contents of a document considered central to the case remains secret. Colin Fogarty has the story. If this were a movie, the opening scene could be lifted right out of All the President's Men. Portland attorney Thomas Nelson says one night last year his colleague noticed a suspicious man trying to get into an office they shared. Thomas Nelson: "Some of the papers on my desk ...
FARC leaders on cocaine charges
Post Date: 2006-03-24 07:40:12 by Eoghan
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THE US Government has charged 50 leaders of Colombia's main left-wing rebel group with smuggling "devastating amounts" of cocaine into the US and reaping billions of dollars from global trafficking. "This is the largest narcotics trafficking indictment ever filed in US history, and fuels our hope to reduce narco violence in Colombia and stem the tide of illegal drugs entering our country," US Attorney-General Alberto Gonzales said in Washington yesterday. The charges said the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) was behind 50 per cent of the world's cocaine trade and 60 per cent of the cocaine trafficked into the US. FARC used proceeds from the cocaine trade ...
Cal Thomas: Bush/GOP Spending Nightmare - Third Party Or Bloody Revolution Needed
Post Date: 2006-03-24 03:01:16 by Uncle Bill
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Spending obscenities Washington Times By Cal Thomas March 22, 2006 Not so long ago, in a country that now seems far, far away, Ronald Reagan told the nation: "We don't have deficits because people are taxed too little. We have deficits because big government spends too much." He uttered those words when Democrats controlled the House (where spending legislation originates) and the national debt, said the Bureau of Public Debt, was $2.3 trillion. Last week, a Republican Senate voted to raise the debt ceiling to nearly $9 trillion. Senators quickly passed a record $2.8 trillion budget. What would Reagan say now? He said then: "The federal deficit is outrageous. For years ...
Activist sent to Adams jail for refusing to remove shirt
Post Date: 2006-03-23 20:57:20 by Zipporah
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http://DenverPost.com A community activist was jailed Wednesday for 45 days by an Adams County judge for wearing a T-shirt in court with a photograph of executed killer Stanley "Tookie" Williams and the word "redemption." Shareef Aleem, 37, was found in contempt March 1 for wearing the shirt during his trial on charges he assaulted a police officer. Aleem apparently refused Judge Katherine Delgado's order to remove the shirt, citing his First Amendment rights. Williams was a former gang member convicted of homicide in California who was executed in December despite pleas from supporters who said he had reformed. "There are limits to the judge's powers ...
Elderly Couple Hospitalized After Cops Raid Wrong House
Post Date: 2006-03-23 19:03:42 by Brian S
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Thursday, March 23, 2006 HORN LAKE, Miss. — An unidentified elderly Horn Lake couple were hospitalized Thursday after police burst into their home thinking it housed a methamphetamine laboratory. The incident occurred Wednesday about 4 a.m., said police Capt. Shannon Beshears. Beshears said it was the right address but the wrong house. Beshears said a heavily armed Tactical Apprehension Containment Team stormed the house. "We had good information from a reliable source that had been backed up by a purchase of narcotics linked to the address. However, when we arrived at the designated address, there were two houses on the lot. We hit the larger of the two houses. "It was ...
Pentagon to review policy on planting news stories
Post Date: 2006-03-23 18:20:14 by Eoghan
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The Pentagon will review whether it is proper for the military to pay news organizations to publish positive stories secretly written by U.S. forces, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Thursday. During a briefing, Rumsfeld refused to give his opinion on the propriety of the practice. Asked if he agreed with comments by Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that the military should disclose when it pays for a story, Rumsfeld said, "No, I said we would take it under advisement and take a look at it. I'm not going to make a judgment off the top of my head." Following a report in the Los Angeles Times in November, the U.S. military acknowledged ...
Kansas: House Overrides Gun Veto; Concealed Carry To Become Law
Post Date: 2006-03-23 13:05:02 by Brian S
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TOPEKA, Kan. -- Kansans will be able to carry concealed guns after the House on Thursday overrode Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' veto of a gun bill, allowing it to become law this summer. The vote was 91-33, giving supporters of the measure seven votes more than the two-thirds majority necessary. The Senate voted Wednesday night to override the veto, 30-10, with three votes more than needed. The new law takes effect July 1, but it's not yet clear when the first permits will be issued. The law will permit U.S. citizens 21 and older living in Kansas to obtain a four-year concealed-carry permit from their local sheriffs, but it gives the attorney general's office until Jan. 1 to work out the ...
Vocal Critic Of Bush's Eavesdropping To Shepherd Bills Through Senate
Post Date: 2006-03-23 11:17:03 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON -- A vocal Republican critic of the Bush administration's eavesdropping program will preside over Senate efforts to write the program into law, but he was pessimistic Wednesday that the White House wanted to listen. "They want to do just as they please, for as long as they can get away with it," Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I think what is going on now without congressional intervention or judicial intervention is just plain wrong." Specter was one of the first Republicans to publicly question the National Security Agency's authority to monitor international calls -- when one party is ...
Toy guns not for cars: Police
Post Date: 2006-03-23 09:31:03 by Eoghan
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Durham Region residents are being cautioned not to carry their kids' toy guns in the car after a Whitby father was involved in a high-risk takedown during a routine traffic stop this week. Sgt. Jeff Galipeau said several traffic officers and a thirtysomething Whitby man became involved in a "very stressful situation" when his son's "realistic looking" toy pistol fell out of the glove compartment when the man was going for his documents. Durham Region police have been at the forefront of a campaign to make it illegal for those under 18 to possess imitation or toy guns that look like the real thing. But the campaign, which would see the offence punishable by a $150 ...
The Patriot Act and Attention Deficit Democracy
Post Date: 2006-03-23 01:51:52 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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The American political system failed when Congress and the media recently rolled over in favor of extending the most onerous provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act. Despite stark evidence of both the law’s abuses and widespread popular opposition, Bush got a rubber-stamp extension of a law that has come to symbolize boundless government intrusions since 9/11. The reenactment of the Patriot Act symbolizes how America is becoming an “attention deficit democracy” – characterized by pervasive negligence and ignorance throughout society and much of the government. Most Americans appear to no longer care whether there is any leash on government power. Many Americans did try to ...
Fmr. GOP Strategist Kevin Phillips on American Theocracy
Post Date: 2006-03-23 01:47:17 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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AMY GOODMAN: In a minute we will be joined by Kevin Phillips here in our Firehouse studio, but first I want to turn to President Bush. On Monday, he spoke about the war in Iraq in Ohio. After his address, he took questions from the crowd. The first question addressed Phillips's book American Theocracy. Q: My question is that author and former Nixon administration official Kevin Phillips, in his latest book, American Theocracy, discusses what has been called radical Christianity and its growing involvement into government and politics. He makes the point that members of your administration have reached out to prophetic Christians who see the war in Iraq and the rise of terrorism as signs of ...
Bush's Mysterious 'New Programs'
Post Date: 2006-03-22 23:21:15 by Horse
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Not that George W. Bush needs much encouragement, but Sen. Lindsey Graham suggested to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales a new target for the administration’s domestic operations -- Fifth Columnists, supposedly disloyal Americans who sympathize and collaborate with the enemy. “The administration has not only the right, but the duty, in my opinion, to pursue Fifth Column movements,” Graham, R-S.C., told Gonzales during Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Feb. 6. “I stand by this President’s ability, inherent to being Commander in Chief, to find out about Fifth Column movements, and I don’t think you need a warrant to do that,” Graham added, ...
Did MZM, Other Companies Staff Bush Intel Panel?
Post Date: 2006-03-22 17:24:12 by aristeides
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Did MZM, Other Companies Staff Bush Intel Panel? By Justin Rood - March 22, 2006, 9:26 AM At War and Piece, Laura Rozen finds more indicators that MZM's contracts with the White House were for three professional staffers on the Robb-Silberman WMD commission. First, the MZM contracts list their "place of performance" as Arlington, VA -- where the commission's offices were -- not Washington, D.C., where the White House is known to be. Second, Rozen found similar arrangements between the White House and other intelligence contractors, including Booz-Allen Hamilton and SAIC. Laura and I have both confirmed various staffers worked for SAIC. Those companies have increased their ...
MISSISSIPPI OUTLAWS SEX TOYS
Post Date: 2006-03-22 15:50:39 by Mind_Virus
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March 21, 2006 | 9:20 a.m. ET Mississippi Outlaws Sex Toys (Dan Abrams) There is a landmark legal battle of constitutional proportions being fought down in Mississippi. It involves fundamental rights protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments, not to mention the rights of certain small business owners to satisfy their customers. This week, another court refused to recognize Mississippians’ right to find companionship for 29.99 and so a law outlawing the sale of sex toys will stand. “A person commits the offense of distributing unlawful sexual devices when he knowingly sells, advertises, publishes or exhibits to any person any three-dimensional device designed or marketed ...
The Constitutionality of Sex Toys And A Solution For Kansas
Post Date: 2006-03-22 15:48:42 by Mind_Virus
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The Constitutionality of Sex Toys And A Solution For Kansas By: Brandon he 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals handling of sex toys (as constitutional issue) has been on the rise. In a series of cases, the rights of Americans to such toys have come into play. The involvement of the federal courts have resulted from a Alabama law prohibiting the sale of sex toys and in Georgia, where an obscenity statute prohibits the sale, or advertisement for sale, of "[a]ny device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs." There was also an appeals case of a civil suit against Delta Air Lines for compensatory and punitive damages for a woman's ...
Pulled over in Kansas? Get ready to show your license, registration — and fingerprints
Post Date: 2006-03-22 15:22:52 by The 7th MJS2U2
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If you are stopped by police in Kansas, don’t be surprised if the officer pulls out a little black box and takes your fingerprints. The gadget allows officers to identify people by fingerprints without hauling them to the police station. Over the next year the Kansas Bureau of Investigation will test 60 of the devices with law enforcement agencies around the state. State officials said similar tests are being planned for New York, Milwaukee and Hawaii. “This is definitely new,” said Gary Page, Overland Park Police Department crime lab. “It’s been talked about, but as far as I know they are not in use anywhere in the metro.” The tests in Kansas are part of a ...
Ex-gay group targets blogger with cease and desist; ACLU intervenes
Post Date: 2006-03-22 15:22:12 by Zipporah
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Published: Wednesday March 22, 2006 A man who posted a parody of an ad promoting "ex-gay" program Exodus International has been served with a cease-and-desist, RAW STORY has learned. The ACLU plans to intervene on the man's behalf. Justin Watt, a blogger from Santa Rosa, CA, says he was "deeply offended" by an Exodus billboard that read, "Gay? Unhappy? www.exodus.to." The ministry believes that it can cure people of homosexuality, thus giving them a happier life. Watt digitally altered an image of the billboard on his website http://(Justinsomnia.org) to read, "Straight? Unhappy? http://www.gay.com." Attorneys representing Exodus sent Watt a ...
Longtime A.P. Correspondent Ousted From Job in Vermont (inappropriate to run Leahy column critical of Bush)
Post Date: 2006-03-22 13:34:19 by Zipporah
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The longtime chief correspondent for The Associated Press in Vermont has been forced out of his job, stunning the state's journalists and politicians. Christopher Graff, 52, a writer who was in charge of The A.P.'s Vermont bureau in Montpelier, was told Monday he no longer had a job. The move came after he put a partisan column on the wire, and as the news agency is consolidating some of its bureaus across state lines. Mr. Graff, a 27-year A.P. employee and host of "Vermont This Week" on Vermont Public Television for more than a decade, said he could not discuss the matter because he had signed a nondisclosure agreement. But speaking of news articles yesterday about his ...
CIA telling ex-agents they must get approval to blog
Post Date: 2006-03-22 13:31:01 by Zipporah
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The CIA's Publications Review Board is sending out terse reminders to agency veterans reminding them of the rules requiring that any writings--even blogs--must first get agency approval, US News and World Report reports Wednesday. Excerpts: # Among those getting the warning is outspoken blogger and ex-agency man Larry Johnson, who smells censorship. "It's very selective," says Johnson, who has been critical of the CIA's failure to defend outed ex-spook Valerie Plame. His note from CIA brass referenced his blogging. A CIA spokesman described the reminder as standard operating procedure. "Should anyone be surprised if CIA reminds people of the obligations they ...
We Can No Longer Afford Vulture Capitalism
Post Date: 2006-03-22 10:12:10 by loner
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Vulture Captalism's cost in terms of human death and human misery has become so unbearable that we must now abandon it and establish a life-affirming Commonwealth Social System. The political, economic, and general social structures of our society must now be re-configured to ensure the preservation and betterment of all human beings, not just the privileged few. In this essay, we'll use the term "vulture capitalism" to refer to the specific economic structures and practices of the demonic cabal which took economic and political control of the United States in the early part of the twentieth century. The term "capitalism," like any generic term, must be tied down to ...
Texas Officials Make Public Intoxication Arrests Inside Bars
Post Date: 2006-03-22 07:43:43 by Jethro Tull
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POSTED: 4:04 pm CST March 15, 2006 UPDATED: 9:44 am CST March 17, 2006 IRVING, Texas -- The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission has taken its fight against drunken driving to a new level. TABC agents, along with Irving police, targeted 36 bars and clubs Friday, arresting some allegedly intoxicated patrons before they departed the businesses. The officers and agents also kept watch on bartenders who might have over-served patrons. Agents arrested 30 people Friday night. Most of the suspects now face charges of public intoxication. The agents and Irving police officers traveled from bar to bar and worked undercover, according to an NBC 5 report. The report also said that some agents ...
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