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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
Congressional Candidate Put On No-Fly List
Post Date: 2006-02-23 11:35:03 by Brian S
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McHugh challenger and war opponent Johnson claims bias By JOE LoTEMPLIO, Staff Writer PLATTSBURGH -- A candidate for Congress has been put on a federal watch list as a possible terror suspect, and he wants to know why. Dr. Robert Johnson, a Democrat from Sackets Harbor, near Watertown, who is challenging incumbent Republican John McHugh in the 23rd District, said he was denied access aboard a Continental Airlines flight to Florida on Jan. 17 from Syracuse after officials informed him that he was on a "no-fly" list. "I flew to England in December and there was no problem, then in January all of a sudden I'm on the list," said Johnson, a heart surgeon and former ...
Reverse Speech - The Mirror In The Door
Post Date: 2006-02-23 10:09:41 by christine
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>http://ALT="rense.com"> Reverse Speech - The Mirror In The Door By Michael Goodspeed Thunderbolts.info2-20-6 "...the door out of Hell is firmly locked, but by the devils themselves, on the inside; whether it is also locked on the outside need not, therefore, be considered."--C.S. Lewis, A Preface to Paradise Lost Mark Twain said, "The truth is the most valuable thing we have." Ironically, it is Twain to whom a few have referred as the archetypal "Gonzo Journalist"; his "reportage" was often a skillful blend of truth, embellishment, and outright fabrication. Indeed, the above quote is only partial. Twain actually ...
Viet Dinh vs. Paul Craig Roberts
Post Date: 2006-02-23 06:56:31 by Kamala
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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 http://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 ...
Bin Laden's operatives still using freewheeling Dubai
Post Date: 2006-02-23 02:46:06 by Uncle Bill
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White House Meltdown Al-Qaida plans high-sea terror"The report warns cargo ships or shipping containers could be used to deliver weapons of mass destruction for terror groups such as al-Qaida. The report, produced in cooperation with the European Commission, said: "The potential threat of terrorists using containers poses a large risk to our economies and to our societies. Ultimately, this means that the marine sector – and specifically the container transport sector – remains wide open to the terrorist threat." Bin Laden's operatives still using freewheeling Dubai USA Today September 2, 2004 Osama bin Laden's operatives still use this freewheeling city as a ...
Civilian Inmate Labor Program
Post Date: 2006-02-22 20:51:16 by Zipporah
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Civilian Inmate Labor Program 36 pages PDF *Army Regulation 210–35 AR 210–35 Civilian Inmate Labor Program This rapid action revision dated 14 January 2005-- o Assigns responsibilities to Headquarters, Installation Management Agency (para 1-4j). o Makes administrative and editorial changes (throughout). This new regulation dated 9 December 1997 o Provides Army policy and guidance for establishing civilian inmate labor programs and civilian prison camps on Army installations. o Discusses sources of Federal and State civilian inmate labor. Contents (Listed by paragraph and page number) Chapter 1 Introduction, page 1 Purpose • 1–1, page 1 References • 1– ...
U.S. Is Ordered to Disclose Spying (NSA SCANDAL MAY SINK PROSECUTION)
Post Date: 2006-02-22 19:30:27 by aristeides
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U.S. Is Ordered to Disclose Spying ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 21 (AP) — In a ruling made public on Tuesday, a federal judge said the government must disclose whether it used any information from the domestic eavesdropping program in its case against a man convicted of joining Al Qaeda and plotting to assassinate the president. The judge, Gerald Bruce Lee, postponed the sentencing of the man, Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, at the request of defense lawyers who said they suspected that he was illegally singled out by the eavesdropping program. In the ruling, Judge Lee gave prosecutors until March 9 to submit a sworn declaration from a government official to say whether any information from the ...
THE MEMO: How an internal effort to ban the abuse and torture of detainees was thwarted.
Post Date: 2006-02-22 16:48:51 by aristeides
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THE MEMO How an internal effort to ban the abuse and torture of detainees was thwarted. by JANE MAYER Issue of 2006-02-27 Posted 2006-02-20 One night this January, in a ceremony at the Officers’ Club at Fort Myer, in Arlington, Virginia, which sits on a hill with a commanding view across the Potomac River to the Washington Monument, Alberto J. Mora, the outgoing general counsel of the United States Navy, stood next to a podium in the club’s ballroom. A handsome gray-haired man in his mid-fifties, he listened with a mixture of embarrassment and pride as his colleagues toasted his impending departure. Amid the usual tributes were some more pointed comments. “Never has ...
Justices May Hear Detainee's Appeal (HAMDAN CASE)
Post Date: 2006-02-22 11:30:05 by aristeides
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Justices May Hear Detainee's Appeal By Josh White Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, February 22, 2006; Page A06 The Supreme Court refused yesterday to dismiss a case that challenges the legality of military trials for terrorism suspects, declining to immediately accept the Bush administration's argument that a new law has stripped the court of its ability to consider the matter. The justices instead decided to consider whether they have the authority to hear an appeal by Salim Ahmed Hamdan, the alleged driver and bodyguard for Osama bin Laden, at the same time that they hear oral arguments about the constitutionality of the "military commission" trial that Hamdan is ...
The Secret History of Mohammed Atta: US didnt need Able Danger to locate terrorist ringleader
Post Date: 2006-02-22 11:19:50 by Zipporah
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Click here to watch clip The MadCowMorningNews today released an exclusive 19-minute video interview (video box below) refuting sworn testimony given by a Pentagon official last week at the Able Danger hearing, who said the U.S. had not identified Mohamed Atta prior to 9/11. The Pentagon’s state-of-the-art data mining capabilities, testified Under Secretary of Defense Stephen Cambone, have determined there was no information about hijacker Atta resident in U.S. databases from before 9/11. At least 6 million people know different. Unfortunately they live in Germany... Germany’s Der Bild (see picture above) the largest circulation (6,000,000)newspaper in the world, reported on ...
The Son-of-A-Bitch Has To Go
Post Date: 2006-02-22 01:55:52 by Mind_Virus
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The S.O.B. has to go By DOUG THOMPSON Feb 21, 2006, 02:00 Bonnie Erbe, a columnist whose work I respect, writes elsewhere on this web site today that President George W. Bush should be impeached for his many high crimes against the Constitution of the United States. "The non-partisan polling firm Zogby International last month found that by a margin of 52 percent to 43 percent, Americans want Congress to consider impeaching President Bush if he wiretapped American citizens without a judge's approval," Erbe says. "Well, there's no "if" about it anymore. The president approved warrantless wiretaps in 2002. Two years later, during a campaign appearance in Buffalo, ...
Censure Holocaust deniers, top legal scholar says
Post Date: 2006-02-21 22:34:13 by bluegrass
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Legislation should be created to enable those "defamed or harmed" by Holocaust revisionism to sue for damages, says a leading constitutional lawyer. Nathan Lewin, a veteran Supreme Court litigator whose family fled Poland during World War II, argues that a recent spate of Holocaust denials is "a viscous form of bigotry" that must be stopped. "To the extent that Holocaust revisionists feel that they can say what they want, I think it snowballs," the 57-year-old attorney asserted in a debate with two law professors at Stanford University last month. Lewin, whose three grandparents died in concentration camps, maintained that the threat of civil litigation ...
2, 500 Saudi Companies Shift to Dubai
Post Date: 2006-02-21 18:47:50 by Uncle Bill
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2,500 Saudi Companies Shift to Dubai http://www.arabnews.com/ P.K. Abdul Ghafour, Arab News Staff December 18, 2003 A prominent Saudi businessman yesterday decried the flight of capital funds from the Kingdom and urged authorities to take effective steps to attract domestic and foreign investments. More than 2,500 Saudi companies have chosen to establish investment projects in Dubai rather than Saudi Arabia during the past three years, he said. “We have to open our country for investment like the outside world opened its doors for us,” said Abdul Mohsen Al-Hokair, chairman of Al-Hokair Group. “Unfortunately we still find it difficult to get licenses. As a result, there are ...
King of VETOS ready to strike again
Post Date: 2006-02-21 17:57:17 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Specter Eyes Measure To Curb Surveillance
Post Date: 2006-02-21 12:13:05 by Brian S
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Published February 21, 2006 Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter is drafting legislation to curtail President Bush's warrantless surveillance program that the president touts as a tool to stop and capture terrorists. While it is not clear how such a law would work -- or even if Congress has the authority to pass such legislation -- Mr. Specter said he hopes to offer something in the coming weeks. The Pennsylvania Republican is among several members of his party who have expressed reservations about the program, which monitors the international communications of suspected terrorists. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle worry that the program allows for electronic ...
Driver Responsibility Tax Surprises Out of State Motorist
Post Date: 2006-02-21 11:42:27 by Indrid Cold
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Driver responsibility taxes turn a single out-of-state speeding ticket into an annual fee. New laws allow some states to tax drivers annually -- even if they live in another state -- simply because they received a speeding ticket. One Connecticut motorist, who asked that his name not be used, discovered this after driving in October in Niagara Falls, New York. Despite being caught in what he considered a brazen speed trap -- the speed limit was 45 MPH where he was caught, but 55 MPH at the same location in the opposite direction -- he accepted the $155 fine for driving 72 MPH thinking by paying the matter would be settled. Last week, however, the state of New York notified him that it now ...
Germany Weighs if It Played Role in Seizure by U.S.
Post Date: 2006-02-21 11:03:14 by Zipporah
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Germany Weighs if It Played Role in Seizure by U.S. By DON VAN NATTA Jr. This article was reported by Don Van Natta Jr., Souad Mekhennet, and Nicholas Wood, and was written by Mr. Van Natta. Ruedinger Baessler/European Pressphoto Agency Khaled el-Masri says he is "90 percent" certain he was interrogated by a German police official in an American prison in Kabul. MUNICH, Feb. 20 — For more than a year, the German government has criticized the United States for its role in the abduction of a German man who was taken to an American prison in Kabul, Afghanistan, where he said he was held and tortured for five months after being mistaken for a terrorism suspect. German ...
Privacy Guardian Is Still a Paper Tiger (WH civil liberties board yet to do a days work)
Post Date: 2006-02-21 10:14:33 by Zipporah
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A year after its creation, the White House civil liberties board has yet to do a single day of work. Times Staff Writer February 20, 2006 WASHINGTON — For Americans troubled by the prospect of federal agents eavesdropping on their phone conversations or combing through their Internet records, there is good news: A little-known board exists in the White House whose purpose is to ensure that privacy and civil liberties are protected in the fight against terrorism. Someday, it might actually meet. Initially proposed by the bipartisan commission that investigated the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board was created by the intelligence overhaul ...
FEMA, The Flood, and Fraud
Post Date: 2006-02-21 07:11:59 by h-a-l-f-w-i-t-t
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Monday, February 20, 2006 FEMA, the Flood and Fraud I've tried to be sanguine about the lies and distortions swirling around the Flood former known as Katrina in the national press, but this one struck me as odd and I decided I had to run it down. One member of the Congressional delegation this past weekend told the Times-Picayune he was concerned that that one third of claims for FEMA housing assistance were fraudulent. A closer inspection finds that's not true, but truth doesn't matter in journalism anymore once an idea escapes into the daily news cycle. Most of what passes for cable "news" is actually a lot of moderately informed and highly opinionated people talking, and it ...
Penumbras, Emanations, and Stuff
Post Date: 2006-02-21 03:30:44 by Zoroaster
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The Reactionary Utopian Penumbras, Emanations, and Stuff February 2, 2006 You could easily get the impression that the U.S. Supreme Court has banned public displays of the Tenth Amendment. Actually, this hasn’t happened, at least not yet. Anyway, adults can still read it in the privacy of their own homes, if they can lay hands on a copy. And in the age of the Internet, it would be hard to suppress completely. But a conspiracy of silence, if observed by enough people, can be as effective as an outright ban. And since at least the days of Franklin D. Roosevelt, that lump of foul deformity, most employees of the Federal Government have tacitly agreed to avoid all mention of the ...
U.S. Reclassifies Many Documents in Secret Review
Post Date: 2006-02-20 23:16:27 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 — In a seven-year-old secret program at the National Archives, intelligence agencies have been removing from public access thousands of historical documents that were available for years, including some already published by the State Department and others photocopied years ago by private historians. The restoration of classified status to more than 55,000 previously declassified pages began in 1999, when the Central Intelligence Agency and five other agencies objected to what they saw as a hasty release of sensitive information after a 1995 declassification order signed by President Bill Clinton. It accelerated after the Bush administration took office and ...
Did the same 6th Circuit Cincinnati Judge who Signed the Patriot Act into Law, Suspending Most of our Constitutional Rights, also say There is No Such Thing as Human Implantable Microchips???
Post Date: 2006-02-20 11:21:48 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Did the same 6th Circuit Cincinnati Judge who Signed the Patriot Act into Law, Suspending Most of our Constitutional Rights, also say There is No Such Thing as Human Implantable Microchips??? Click for Full Text!
White House Working to Avoid Wiretap Probe
Post Date: 2006-02-19 21:53:31 by Brian S
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But Some Republicans Say Bush Must Be More Open About Eavesdropping Program Monday, February 20, 2006; Page A08 At two key moments in recent days, White House officials contacted congressional leaders just ahead of intelligence committee meetings that could have stirred demands for a deeper review of the administration's warrantless-surveillance program, according to House and Senate sources. In both cases, the administration was spared the outcome it most feared, and it won praise in some circles for showing more openness to congressional oversight. But the actions have angered some lawmakers who think the administration's purported concessions mean little. Some Republicans said that ...
Red State, Meet Police State
Post Date: 2006-02-19 17:24:32 by Zipporah
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A federal employee gets hassled by Homeland Security for antiwar stickers on his car. Is it a mistake, a new rule, or the part of a trend of the First Amendment being bullied out of existence? Read the transcript, read the rules and decide for yourselfDwight Scarbrough's idea of political dissent is one that rubs some people the wrong way. He likes to blame his compulsion for peaceful troublemaking on his birthday: October 2, the same as Ghandi. However, a few of Scarbrough's techniques are all his own--especially when it comes to his truck. For instance, when the Iraq War was looking imminent, not long after September 11, Dwight attached a garbage bag to the back of his truck bed. He ...
Daley wants security cameras at bars (Chicago)
Post Date: 2006-02-19 14:48:28 by Zipporah
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By Judy Keen, USA TODAYCHICAGO — Surveillance cameras — aimed at government buildings, train platforms and intersections here — might soon be required at corner taverns and swanky nightclubs. A police camera, mounted with a microphone, can detect the sound of gunshots within a two-block radius.File photo/APMayor Richard Daley wants to require bars open until 4 a.m. to install security cameras that can identify people entering and leaving the building. Other businesses open longer than 12 hours a day, including convenience stores, eventually would have to do the same. Daley's proposed city ordinance adds a dimension to security measures installed after the Sept. 11 attacks. ...
Google Rips Bush Administration's Search Request
Post Date: 2006-02-18 18:50:08 by Brian S
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Posted on Fri, Feb. 17, 2006 NewsGoogle called the Bush administration's request for data on Web searches as ``so uninformed as to be nonsensical'' in papers filed in San Jose federal court Friday, arguing that turning over the information would expose its trade secrets and violate the privacy of its users. The 21-page brief filed by the Mountain View search giant angrily dissected the government's claim that the search results would produce useful evidence regarding child pornography. The Justice Department asked a federal judge to force Google to turn over the data last month, after Google refused to comply with an earlier subpoena. Government lawyers said the searches would help it ...
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