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Get Us OUT !
Post Date: 2006-03-09 10:37:51 by eyeswideoopen
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Must see video - William Jasper talking about why we must get out of the UN http://www.getusout.org/unreform.html
Plan [by Senate Republicans] Would Allow Long-Term Spying Without Warrants
Post Date: 2006-03-08 23:46:08 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON, March 8 — The plan by Senate Republicans to step up oversight of the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program would also give legislative sanction for the first time to long-term eavesdropping on Americans without a court warrant, legal experts said on Wednesday. Civil liberties advocates called the proposed oversight inadequate and the licensing of eavesdropping without warrants unnecessary and unwise. But the Republican senators who drafted the proposal said it represented a hard-wrung compromise with the White House, which strongly opposed any Congressional interference in the eavesdropping program. The Republican proposal appeared likely to win ...
Company working for China secret police to issue passports to Americans
Post Date: 2006-03-08 14:59:20 by The 7th MJS2U2
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In an era where Americans will have commercial operations at six key ports operated by Dubai Ports World, their future passports will be issued from a contractor for the China secret police. US courts forced the U.S. government to allow OTI in on the USA biometric `epassport' program just weeks ago. OTI is the contractor for China secret police for the biometric ID card now coming online, http://(www.smartcardalliance.org./newsletter/April 2003.cfm). That means that the same company that works for the China secret police will have a role in providing all U.S. citizens with their future passports—by court order. National ID smart cards, already at work in China, are used to spy on ...
Try flying without ID (You can)
Post Date: 2006-03-08 14:10:38 by valis
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Be A Freedom Flier – An IDP Investigation Help us help you determine whether the TSA told the 9th Circuit the truth. Can you fly without ID? According to what the government told the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in the Gilmore case, you can – need only submit to secondary screening in order to fly anonymously Please try doing some or all of your travel by declining to show ID and report back about what happens to you. Our ultimate intent is to submit declarations from people such as yourself to the court and introduce hard evidence about what TSA's real policies and practices are. This would probably involve arriving an hour or so earlier in the airport than otherwise, to avoid ...
Whatever Happened to Courage?
Post Date: 2006-03-08 09:34:54 by BTP Holdings
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Whatever Happened to Courage? By Charles Sullivan 03/07/06 "ICH" -- - -For me, one of the most valuable lessons taught by history is that from time to time people rise up and fight back against horrible tyranny and against impossible odds. There are many examples: Shay’s Rebellion, the battle of Matewan, and the battle of Blair Mountain, the Ludlow Massacre, the Haymarket Strike and, more recently, the race wars that culminated in the 1960s. Many of these struggles, conspicuously absent from our history texts, are connected to labor disputes, when workers were forced to organize and to strike for more humane working conditions, including the eight hour work day. Massive ...
Parsippany officials say H.S. mock trial of Bush crossed line
Post Date: 2006-03-08 08:00:31 by angle
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Board members rip class project; final 'testimony' to come PARSIPPANY -- The war crimes "trial" of President Bush in a Parsippany High School classroom is expected to conclude today with additional defense testimony from the student playing Bush, but controversy over the project is continuing. "It clearly crossed a line," school board member Frank Calabria said Monday of the mock tribunal, in which Bush is charged with "crimes against civilian populations" and "inhumane treatment of prisoners." Calabria said he will be asking some questions --"What occurred, how did it happen, why did it happen and exactly what are the ...
Elite US troops 'get expanded role'
Post Date: 2006-03-08 07:45:55 by Eoghan
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Small teams of special operations troops are reportedly being placed in a growing number of American embassies in unstable parts of the world to gather intelligence on terrorists. The elite troops, known as "Military Liaison Elements", also plan potential missions to "disrupt, capture or kill" the terrorists, said a report on the New York Times website. Citing senior Pentagon officials and military officers as sources, the Times said the effort is part of Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's "two-year" bid to give the military a greater intelligence role in the war on terrorism. The paper said, however, the effort "has drawn opposition from traditional ...
New Propaganda Programming From CBS - "The Unit" - promotes domestic fascism and general lawlessness
Post Date: 2006-03-07 22:25:26 by Arator
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In tonight's premiere episode... ...arab terrorists take a plane hostage (on the ground) in Idaho. ...posse comitatus is suspended so that the Army's black ops special unit can "take command of the situation," that's right, in Idaho! ...the unit's commander threatens to kill the civilian authorities on the ground (an FBI official and associates) if they get in his way ...the fascist foursome saves the day, of course. The lesson of tonights episode: Fascism makes the trains run on time, so, embrace it, America!
Poster Comment:Can you believe it? Please, everyone, hammer CBS for airing such unAmerican, pro-fascist propaganda!
House Roll Call Vote - Patriot Act; How did your Rep. vote?
Post Date: 2006-03-07 21:29:36 by Brian S
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House RollCall Patriot Act - By The Associated Press Tuesday, March 7, 2006 (03-07) 16:50 PST , (AP) -- The 280-138 roll call Tuesday by which the House passed legislation to renew the Patriot Act. Under a special procedure, a two-thirds majority was needed for passage. A "yes" vote is a vote to pass the bill. Voting yes were 66 Democrats and 214 Republicans. Voting no were 124 Democrats, 13 Republicans and one independent. X denotes those not voting. There are two vacancies in the 435-member House. ALABAMA Democrats — Cramer, Y; Davis, Y. Republicans — Aderholt, Y; Bachus, Y; Bonner, Y; Everett, Y; Rogers, Y. ALASKA Republicans — Young, N. ...
Congress Renews Patriot Act; Bush to Sign
Post Date: 2006-03-07 21:28:02 by Brian S
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(03-07) 18:19 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) -- The House renewed the USA Patriot Act in a cliffhanger vote Tuesday night, extending a centerpiece of the war on terrorism at President Bush's urging after months of political combat over the balance between privacy rights and the pursuit of potential terrorists. Bush, forced by filibuster to accept new curbs on law enforcement investigations, is expected to sign the legislation before 16 provisions of the 2001 law expire on Friday. The vote was 280-138, just two more than needed under special rules that required a two-thirds majority. The close vote caught senior Republican aides in both chambers by surprise. Nonetheless, the vote marked a ...
Senate Republicans Block Investigation Into President Bush's Secret Domestic Spying Program
Post Date: 2006-03-07 21:21:45 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans blocked an investigation into President Bush's secret domestic spying program on Tuesday, but agreed to expand congressional oversight of the surveillance system in the future. At the same time, a group of four Senate Republicans began circulating legislation that would restrict the administration's ability to eavesdrop on U.S. residents without court approval. The legislation would require the administration to obtain warrants to eavesdrop on U.S. residents unless the attorney general certified to House and Senate intelligence subcommittees that seeking court approval would hurt intelligence gathering. The legislation was sponsored by Sens. Mike DeWine of ...
Senate panel rejects bid for NSA inquiry
Post Date: 2006-03-07 20:25:05 by Zipporah
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1 hour, 20 minutes ago Senate Republicans on Tuesday agreed to expand oversight of President George W. Bush's domestic spying program but rejected Democratic pressure for a broad inquiry into eavesdropping on U.S. citizens. Sen. Pat Roberts (news, bio, voting record) of Kansas, Republican chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said the committee voted to create a new seven-member subcommittee that would scrutinize the eavesdropping under a plan approved by the White House. The Bush administration was criticized by rights groups, Democrats and some Republicans for the surveillance program. It started after the September 11 attacks and allowed the National Security ...
Moderate Republicans Propose Bill to Write Secretly Initiated Spy Program Into Law
Post Date: 2006-03-07 18:56:15 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON - Several moderate Senate Republicans are coalescing around legislation that would give President Bush's much-discussed domestic surveillance program the force of law, more than four years after the program was secretly initiated. The prospects for the draft legislation are far from certain. But Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, has support from at least three moderate Republicans who have helped shaped the debate on intelligence issues: Sens. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, Olympia Snowe of Maine and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. The growing call for legislation has put added pressure on the Bush administration, but the success of DeWine's proposal may depend on whether the president ...
For AIPAC delegates, clear goal on Iran, but mixed messages on P.A.
Post Date: 2006-03-07 18:26:07 by Eoghan
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The lobbying assignment has never been clearer for the 5,000 or so activists at this year’s American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference: Stop Hamas and stop Iran. Yet when it comes to the details — particularly relating to the Palestinian Authority — the message gets murkier, and reveals differences between Washington’s pro-Israel lobby and the Bush administration. AIPAC has never been starker in presenting the threat it believes Israel faces. Howard Kohr, the group’s executive director, suggested the threat had never been as dire since the rise of Nazism. “The parallels of the geopolitical climate of March 5, 1933 and that of March 5, 2006 are ...
S.D. Governor Signs Historic Abortion Ban; Supporters Hope To See Roe Overturned
Post Date: 2006-03-07 08:30:24 by Mind_Virus
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S.D. Governor Signs Historic Abortion Ban; Supporters Hope To See Roe Overturned Mar 3, 2006 By Michael Foust Baptist Press PIERRE, S.D. (BP)--In an action that supporters hope will result in the overturning of the U.S. Supreme Court's infamous Roe v. Wade decision, South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds March 6 signed a bill into law that bans nearly all abortions in the state. Rounds' signature was historic, marking the first time since the 1973 Roe ruling that a state has adopted such a wide-sweeping ban on abortion. The law, which would take effect July 1 if not overturned, bans all abortions except in cases to save the mother's life. Planned Parenthood, which owns the state's only abortion ...
Telling the 'approved' story
Post Date: 2006-03-07 04:41:45 by Uncle Bill
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Telling the 'approved' story Capitol Hill Blue By Doug Thompson March 7, 2006 On an unspecified day last week an employee of a federal agency that cannot be revealed delivered a document that cannot be identified to a company that cannot be named seeking information that cannot be discussed. The aforementioned federal agent left the unidentified document with an employee of the unnamed company. That employee then called the owner, who must remain anonymous, to inform him that the document that could not be identified sought information that could not be discussed. The owner who must remain anonymous instructed the employee to deliver the unidentified document to a lawyer whose name is ...
THAT NEEDS TO CHANGE - by Phyllis Schlafly
Post Date: 2006-03-07 04:15:12 by Uncle Bill
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That Needs To Change Human Events by Phyllis Schlafly Mar 06, 2006 "That needs to change" was Oprah Winfrey's reply to Nan Talese of Doubleday, publisher of "A Million Little Pieces," after James Frey's "memoir" was exposed as a tissue of lies. Doubleday had tried to escape responsibility by saying that publishers don't fact-check nonfiction books. To President George W. Bush's approval of the $6.5 billion sale of terminals at six of our most important ports to the United Arab Emirates, Americans are shouting, "That needs to change." We are fed up with the post-Sept. 11 failure (i.e., the refusal) of the Bush administration to secure our borders ...
Why I Cry
Post Date: 2006-03-07 01:27:37 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Judiciary Chairman May Call Attorney General for More Eavesdropping Questions
Post Date: 2006-03-06 22:39:35 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' written answers to questions about the Bush administration's eavesdropping program may require him to testify a second time before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the panel's Republican chairman said Monday. "There is a suggestion in his letter there are other classified intelligence programs that are currently under way," Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., told reporters. The comments from the moderate Republican come as the Bush administration is trying to quell criticism of its surveillance operations and work with the Senate on legislation that would write the program into law. In a letter to Specter ...
Bush Administration Dismisses Talk of a Compromose on Iran
Post Date: 2006-03-06 16:48:37 by Brian S
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Bush Administration Dismisses Talk of a Compromose on Iran, Says U.N. Will Review Case Soon The Associated Press WASHINGTON - Unless Iran executes a dramatic about-face and suspends all its nuclear activities, the U.N. Security Council will intervene "quite actively," a senior State Department official said Monday. The message to Iran is that it has "crossed the international red line" and engaged in unacceptable enrichment activity "and there must be a U.N. Security Council process to deal with that," Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said. Burns did not say what the United States would ask the Security Council to do. While the Bush administration ...
Georgetown Law Students Turn Backs To Gonzales
Post Date: 2006-03-06 13:00:29 by Brian S
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3-6-6 Future American lawyers to be proud of. Alberto Gonzales spoke before law students at Georgetown Law School today, justifying illegal, unauthorized surveilance of US citizens, but during the course of his speech the students in class did something pretty ballsy and brave. They got up from their seats and turned their backs to him. To make matters worse for Gonzales, additional students came into the room, wearing black cowls and carrying a simple banner, written on a sheet. Fortunately for him, it was a brief speech... followed by a panel discussion that basically ripped his argument in half. And, as one of the people on the panel said, "When you're a law student, they ...
Bush declares war on freedom of the press
Post Date: 2006-03-06 10:38:16 by Horse
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Using many of the questionable surveillance and monitoring techniques that brought both questions and criticism to his administration, President George W. Bush has launched a war against reporters who write stories unfavorable to his actions and is planning to prosecute journalists to make examples of them in his "war on terrorism." Bush recently directed Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to use "whatever means at your disposal" to wiretap, follow, harass and investigate journalists who have published stories about the administration's illegal use of warrantless wiretaps, use of faulty intelligence and anything else he deems "detrimental to the war on ...
Big Brother's Youth League Snoops Colorado Teacher
Post Date: 2006-03-06 09:20:37 by angle
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In Orwell"s novel 1984, Big Brother"s Youth League and the Spies harassed Winston Smith, accused him of thought crime, threatened to turn him in to the Ministry and have him sent to the salt mines. Jay Bennish, high school teacher in Aurora, Colorado, was not threatened like Winton Smith, although a student spy tape recorded his comments in the classroom and now it appears Bennish, who compared Bush to Hitler, will lose his job. "Sophomore Sean Allen recorded about 20 minutes of Bennish"s class during a February 1 discussion about Bush"s State of the Union speech and gave the recording to his father, who complained to the principal," Cherry Creek School ...
Thousands of Federal Trials Kept Secret
Post Date: 2006-03-06 09:09:49 by BTP Holdings
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Thousands of Federal Trials Kept Secret By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN and JOHN SOLOMON Associated Press Writers 03/05/06 "AP" -- -- Despite the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of public trials, nearly all records are being kept secret for more than 5,000 defendants who completed their journey through the federal courts over the last three years. Instances of such secrecy more than doubled from 2003 to 2005. An Associated Press investigation found, and court observers agree, that most of these defendants are cooperating government witnesses, but the secrecy surrounding their records prevents the public from knowing details of their plea bargains with the government. Most of these ...
George W. Bush: The conservative's worst nightmare - Bruce Bartlett
Post Date: 2006-03-06 03:45:47 by Uncle Bill
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George W. Bush: The conservative's worst nightmare? Bush has let down true conservatives in the GOP The Free Lance-Star By Bruce Bartlett March 5, 2006 Last week I published a new book, "Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy." A lot of my friends are not happy with me for writing it, and I have been embraced by a number of people on the left whom I would ordinarily consider my political enemies. Both are mistaken about why I wrote the book and what I hope to accomplish with it. Some of my former friends on the right have attacked me as an opportunist who sold out his party and his president to get a best-seller. They would not think so ...
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