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Verizon Faces New $20B Suit over NSA Spying Complicity
Post Date: 2006-02-25 17:04:44 by Zipporah
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February 24, 2006 The NewStandard Upping the ante in what may be a high-stakes legal battle, an Upstate New York lawyer filed a $20 billion class-action lawsuit against Verizon last week, charging that the company violated customer confidentiality in aiding warrantless eavesdropping by a federal spy agency. The civil suit is the second to challenge corporations for helping the National Security Agency carry out a secret order by the president to spy on communications between people in the United States and parties overseas without first obtaining warrants. The New York Times first revealed the existence of the NSA surveillance program in December. The Bush administration continues ...
NO, YES, NO: Alaska Now Refuses Release of 2004 Election Data Citing Security Concerns!
Post Date: 2006-02-25 14:28:44 by robin
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Blogged by Brad on 2/24/2006 @ 7:51pm PT... NO, YES, NO: Alaska Now Refuses Release of 2004 Election Data Citing Security Concerns!State's Top Security Officer Refuses Public Record Release of Diebold GEMS Database FilesThe Latest Chapter in the Rollercoaster Battle to Audit Puzzling 2004 Poll Numbers Continues... A bizarre story concerning Alaska's 2004 Election has taken yet another even more bizarre turn this week, The BRAD BLOG has learned. A long-standing public records request for the release... A bizarre story concerning Alaska's 2004 Election has taken yet another even more bizarre turn this week, The BRAD BLOG has learned.A long-standing public records request for the release ...
Patriot Act On 'Fast Track' For Approval; Constitution Has Been Ripped To Shreds
Post Date: 2006-02-25 14:17:18 by Mind_Virus
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Patriot Act On 'Fast Track' For Approval; Constitution Has Been Ripped To Shreds The entire U.S.Senate should be removed from power for allowing the Patriot Act to become a permanent law. 25 Feb 2006 By Greg Szymanski The revised version of the Patriot Act is on a fast track for congressional approval, indicating the level of corruption in the U.S. Senate calls for each and every Senator to be removed from office on charges of treason. While millions of Americans throughout the country protest the erosion of their privacy rights, the hijacking of the U.S. Constitution is in its final stages on Capitol Hill, as the severe revisions of the Patriot Act are set for "permanent" ...
Diebold AccuVote TSx touch-screen voting machine: No voters required.
Post Date: 2006-02-25 11:28:43 by angle
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Link to story: http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002458.htm Now we have no idea what that "IrDA" port is meant to be used for with a touch-screen voting machine, but we do know that the IrDA (Infrared Data Association) is an Infrared port used for wireless connection between two devices. We used to have one on the back of our notebook and desktop computers which we used to keep the two systems synched up via wireless data transfers over that Infrared port. A few election watchdog groups, including some members of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) who works with the federal authorities on these matters, have issued warnings about the IrDA port and ...
Washington told to justify port deal in court
Post Date: 2006-02-25 10:30:20 by buckeroo
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PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The Bush administration was ordered by a U.S. federal judge on Friday to explain why it did not give New Jersey officials documents and information Washington had about a deal allowing an Arab company to take over management of a container terminal in Newark. U.S. District Court Judge Jose Linares signed an order demanding to know why the government did not carry out a full investigation into the change of ownership of the container terminal at Port Newark. The judge set a hearing for Wednesday and said in the order he would issue a preliminary injunction blocking the deal, pending a full investigation, unless he was satisfied with Washington's answers. The judge ...
New Music Video - "DEATH STAR" by "The Arab League" (oh man, is this good!)
Post Date: 2006-02-25 02:23:44 by Arator
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Starring George Herbert Walker Bush as Darth Vader and George W. Bush as a much darker Luke Skywalker. Watch with either Quicktime or Windows Media Player. Here's the lyrics (as best as I can make them out): 1st Verse: It happened in a galaxy not so far away With a dark force mounting in a land of disarray He who has the will and want to get their way Cuts deep to reap, carpe diem (seize the day) Hack out an empire by hook and by crook Machiavelli would have gagged at the steps that they took Approve of instruction, act according to the book But it came on the sheeple with the ground that they shook Hands set in motion by the notion of control Of the souls of those who do exactly what ...
Lest We Forget
Post Date: 2006-02-25 01:16:56 by Zoroaster
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February 25, 2006 Lest We Forget by Paul Craig Roberts Fifty years ago today, Nikita Khrushchev gave his Secret Speech to the Closed Session of the Twentieth Party Congress in which he denounced Joseph Stalin. At that time, Khrushchev, the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, held the most powerful political office in the world. The power that Stalin had accumulated in this position had made communism unsafe for communists. Heroes of the Bolshevik Revolution had been subjected to "barbaric tortures" and forced to incriminate themselves "with all kinds of grave and unlikely crimes." Khrushchev denounced Stalin before the Party Congress "in ...
MADSEN'S LATEST ON NSA SURVEILLANCE OF JOURNALISTS
Post Date: 2006-02-24 23:41:42 by aristeides
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February 24, 2006 -- NSA expands surveillance of journalists. According to NSA sources, the signals intelligence agency, which has been at the center of a political storm over President Bush's warrantless wiretaps of U.S. citizens, has expanded the surveillance of journalists identified by the Bush administration as alleged recipients of classified information. The surveillance database, part of the intelligence community's "Denial and Deception" operations and once known as "Firstfruit" until WMR revealed its existence last May, now includes transcripts of phone calls and e-mails between journalists and their contacts and associates. NSA sources revealed that the ...
LOU DOBBS: "Out of all the terminals at our ports, 80 percent are already in foreign hands"
Post Date: 2006-02-24 21:55:03 by Uncle Bill
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DOBBS: Should those key infrastructure assets, should be managed by U.S. firms? The U.S. government? SCHEMAN: Well, let's walk through it. The aviation industry ... DOBBS: Make it a quick walk. SCHEMAN: Well, the aviation industry took, what, a lot of money, something like $700 million that's only been on ports versus $20 billion on the aviation industry. So when we look at our ports, we're not spending money on security on ports yet. That's the big misnomer. We're putting in very basic infrastructure, not enough people, not enough assets. So the fact that we have foreign ownership of ports, 80 percent of our ports are already in foreign hands. DOBBS: Well, let's say that again. Out ...
I'm Pro-Choice And I F**k : The Intimate Link Between Reproductive And Sexual Freedom
Post Date: 2006-02-24 19:58:02 by Mind_Virus
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Lusty Lady I'm Pro-Choice And I Fuck The Intimate Link Between Reproductive And Sexual Freedom by Rachel Kramer Bussel January 13th, 2006 4:49 PM Pro-choice activist and author Cristina Page photo: Marion Ettlinger If you're a (hetero)sexually active woman capable of getting pregnant, your freedom is in danger. Access to abortion and birth control is increasingly under fire from conservatives who think all sex should result in pregnancy. Go beyond the bloody-fetus placards and you'll see the religious right isn't out to simply reverse Roe v. Wade, but to combat birth control and promiscuity while they're at it. Cristina Page, vice president of NARAL Pro-Choice New York, exposes ...
George Bush fears email privacy breach 'I don't want you reading my personal stuff', prez tells press
Post Date: 2006-02-24 17:19:59 by Zipporah
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By Lester Haines Published Friday 15th April 2005 12:21 GMT US prez George Bush has admitted he does not send personal emails to daughters Jenna and Barbara for fear that his "personal stuff" might end up in the public domain. Bush made the admission on Thursday to the American Society of Newspaper Editors during a discussion centring on whether the US government is sufficiently forthcoming to requests made under the Freedom of Information Act, Reuters reports. Bush said the administration gets around 3.5 million FOIA requests a year and noted: "I would hope that those who expose documents are wise about the difference between that which truly would jeopardize national ...
South Dakota House Approves Abortion Ban Bill : Republican Gov. Mike Rounds Said He Was Inclined To Sign The Bill
Post Date: 2006-02-24 16:46:03 by Mind_Virus
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S.D. House Approves Abortion Ban Bill By CHET BROKAW, Associated Press Writer PIERRE, S.D. - South Dakota lawmakers approved a ban on nearly all abortions Friday, setting up a deliberate frontal assault on Roe v. Wade at a time when some activists see the U.S. Supreme Court as more willing than ever to overturn the 33-year-old decision. Republican Gov. Mike Rounds said he was inclined to sign the bill, which would make it a crime for doctors to perform an abortion unless it was necessary to save the woman's life. The measure would make no exception in cases of rape or incest. Many opponents and supporters of abortion rights believe the U.S. Supreme Court is more likely to overturn its ...
Homeland Security swoops on library Land of the Free they've heard of it
Post Date: 2006-02-24 16:20:20 by Zipporah
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Land of the Free they've heard of it By Nick Farrell: Friday 24 February 2006, 07:33 TWO UNIFORMED Homeland Security officers have created a bit of a stink after walking into a public library and telling computer users that in the interests of national security they were not allowed to visit porn sites. According to the Washington Post, the pair entered Little Falls branch of the Montgomery County Public Library in Bethesda, called for attention and made their announcement. They then went and looked at what each person was looking at on their PC. They challenged one man about a site he was visiting and told him to step outside. It then appears that the Homeland Security officers ...
Data mining program continues after lawmakers order it closed
Post Date: 2006-02-24 13:10:25 by Zipporah
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A controversial intelligence data mining program, which was closed by lawmakers over privacy concerns two years ago, has continued to receive funding and remained in operation under different code names in different agencies, according to today's National Journal. Excerpts from the Journal's article follow: # Research under the Defense Department's Total Information Awareness program -- which developed technologies to predict terrorist attacks by mining government databases and the personal records of people in the United States -- was moved from the Pentagon's research-and-development agency to another group, which builds technologies primarily for the National Security Agency, ...
NRA Urges Judge to Overturn S.F. Gun Ban
Post Date: 2006-02-24 11:18:09 by Brian S
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(02-24) 04:31 PST San Francisco (AP) -- The National Rifle Association urged a judge to overturn San Francisco's voter-approved handgun ban, arguing the city can't ban the guns because state law allows them. Chuck Michel, an attorney for the NRA and gun enthusiasts suing to repeal the ban, said he was "sympathetic with the victims of gun violence," but he said lawful weapon owners "are part of the solution, and not part of the problem." Without addressing the Second Amendment dispute over the constitutional right to bear arms, Michel argued that a local government cannot ban weapons because the California Legislature allows guns and has almost exclusive authority ...
Pentagon Told to Release Gitmo Transcripts
Post Date: 2006-02-23 23:41:03 by Zipporah
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Thu Feb 23, 8:19 PM ET A federal judge ordered the Pentagon on Thursday to release the identities of hundreds of detainees at Guantanamo Bay to The Associated Press, a move which would force the government to break its secrecy and reveal the most comprehensive list yet of those who have been imprisoned there. Some of the hundreds of detainees in the war on terror being held at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been held as long as four years. Only a handful have been officially identified. U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff in New York ordered the Defense Department to release uncensored transcripts of detainee hearings, which contain the names of detainees in custody ...
Things To Think About Our Government
Post Date: 2006-02-23 23:35:04 by rack42
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I found this on another forum and I don't doubt the veracity: Things To Think About Our Government: 1. 29 Members of Congress have been accused of spousal abuse 2. 7 Have been arrested for fraud 3. 19 Have been accused of writing bad checks 4. 117 Have bankrupted at least two businesses 5. 3 Have been arrested for assault 6. 71 Have credit reports so bad they can't qualify for a credit card 7. 14 Have been arrested on drug related charges 8. 8 Have been arrested for shoplifting 9. 21 Are current defendants in lawsuits 10. 84 Were stopped for drunk driving in 1998 alone, but released after they claimed Congressional immunity
DOD Secretly Continued Intel Program [Total Awareness Information program]
Post Date: 2006-02-23 21:49:03 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- A controversial counter-terrorism program has quietly continued despite being theoretically ended two years ago. The Department of Defense's Total Awareness Information program was halted by lawmakers more than two years ago amid outcries from privacy advocates. However, it was stopped in name only and has quietly continued within the intelligence agency now fending off charges that it has violated the privacy of U.S. citizens, the National journal reported Thursday. The TIA program developed technologies to predict terrorist attacks by mining government databases and the personal records of people in the United States. Its research was moved from the ...
New Jersey Filing Suits To Block Port Takeover By Arab Company
Post Date: 2006-02-23 21:21:13 by Brian S
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[JURIST] New Jersey is launching legal actions in federal and state court to keep a company from the United Arab Emirates [official website] from taking over US port operations in the state, Gov. Jon Corzine [official website; press release] said Tuesday. Corzine said the New Jersey attorney general will file a complaint in federal district court while the Port Authorities of New York and New Jersey will file a suit in state court. The suit claims that the Bush administration's approval of a $6.8 billion takeover by Dubai Ports World [corporate website] of P&O, the British firm currently holding the operating rights over six major US seaport facilities, including New Jersey's Port ...
Files show military rebuffs FBI Guantanamo worries
Post Date: 2006-02-23 20:09:22 by Zipporah
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By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - FBI agents accused U.S. military personnel at the Guantanamo prison of using illegal "aggressive interrogation tactics" on detainees but senior military officials rejected FBI concerns, documents made public on Thursday showed. The FBI documents, released by the American Civil Liberties Union after being obtained under a court order, further exposed the rift between the agency and the Pentagon over treatment of foreign terrorism suspects imprisoned at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The FBI said the military's techniques, which involved homosexual pornographic movies, loud music and the Israeli flag, not only were illegal ...
Viet Dinh vs. Paul Craig Roberts
Post Date: 2006-02-23 19:59:06 by BTP Holdings
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Viet Dinh vs. Paul Craig Roberts Viet Dinh's Letter Dear Mr. Roberts, I write as a bewildered fan. A fan because I truly admire your past service to our nation as a government official and your past contributions to our intellectual culture. Bewildered because your recent posting on LewRockwell.com compares America’s defense against terrorism to Nazi Germany and because, even more inexplicably, your opinion appears to be based on total fiction. I woke up this last Saturday to the following message on my email: "Last week's annual Conservative Political Action Conference signaled the transformation of American conservatism into brownshirtism. A former Justice Department ...
What didn't the president know and when didn't he know it?
Post Date: 2006-02-23 19:01:23 by aristeides
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ANALYSIS-Bush did-not-know strategy on ports puzzles some Thursday 23 February 2006, 4:10pm EST By Patricia Wilson WASHINGTON, Feb 23 (Reuters) - What didn't the president know and when didn't he know it? Faced with a rebellion in his own Republican party over an Arab company's planned takeover of operations at six U.S. ports, the White House says President George W. Bush was in the dark about it until last week. While Bush adamantly defended the deal again on Thursday, the I-did-not-know strategy has puzzled some political analysts and communications experts. "It's a disaster for him, I think," said Michael Hogan, professor of communication, arts and sciences at ...
MADSEN: SOFTWARE TECHNICIAN INVOLVED IN NSA SURVEILLANCE GUILTY OF MURDER?
Post Date: 2006-02-23 16:28:03 by aristeides
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February 23, 2006 -- Accused British murderer of wife and child receives "special treatment" from U.S. intelligence agency. Neil Entwistle, the 27-year old Briton accused of shooting to death his wife Rachel and baby daughter Lillian on January 19, has been linked to classified work on special Internet surveillance software, according to source close to U.S. intelligence. Entwistle was recently extradited back to the United States from Britain to face double murder charges. Entwistle has pleaded not guilty to the charges. Police claimed Entwistle shot his wife and daughter with a .22 semi-automatic smuggled out of his father-in-laws home. Entwistle's firm, Embedded New ...
ACLU: New documents show senior officials approved Gitmo abuse
Post Date: 2006-02-23 13:19:26 by Zipporah
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The American Civil Liberties Union released newly obtained documents Thursday showing that senior Defense Department officials approved aggressive interrogation techniques that FBI agents deemed abusive, ineffective and unlawful, RAW STORY has learned. “We now possess overwhelming evidence that political and military leaders endorsed interrogation methods that violate both domestic and international law,” Jameel Jaffer, an attorney with the ACLU said in a release. “It is entirely unacceptable that no senior official has been held accountable.” The ACLU's release follows. # Included in today’s release is a memorandum prepared by FBI personnel on May 30, 2003, ...
More than six dozen CIA-linked landings in Canada: declassified memos
Post Date: 2006-02-23 12:16:22 by Zipporah
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Canadian Press Thursday, February 23, 2006 OTTAWA -- Newly declassified memos show the number of Canadian landings by planes tied to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency far exceeds previously known figures. Internal government briefing notes obtained Wednesday also reveal senior intelligence officials from six federal agencies, including Canada's spy service, met in late November to discuss the flights. The memos underscore the level of concern in government circles about public fears the CIA has been ferrying terrorist suspects through Canada to foreign prisons. One note, stamped secret, says 20 planes with alleged CIA ties have made 74 flights to Canada since the terrorist ...
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