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MADSEN: CHENEY AND HUNTING ACCIDENTS
Post Date: 2006-02-13 14:25:54 by aristeides
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February 13, 2006 -- Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot fellow hunter, 78-year old Austin attorney Harry Whittington, while quail hunting on the south Texas ranch of Anne Armstrong, a former U.S. ambassador to Britain and an adviser to Presidents Nixon, Reagan and Bush I. The incident occurred during the late afternoon of February 11 but the news was not revealed until February 12 after being confirmed by the White House after the Corpus Christi Caller-Times reported the story. The White House sat on the story for 24 hours. Local police were not informed about the incident. Whittington was hit in the face, neck, and chest with bird shot from Cheney's shotgun resulting in bleeding ...
A Certain Trumpet
Post Date: 2006-02-13 11:12:09 by Tauzero
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A Certain Trumpet Sam G. Dickson, American Renaissance, May 1997 This is an abridged version of the closing address to the May, 1996 AR conference, which took place despite vigorous efforts to shut it down. The title of my remarks is drawn from First Corinthians, Chapter 14: “For if the note of the trumpet be uncertain, who shall prepare himself for the battle?” At this conference we have had speakers who have served as trumpeters, sounding a clear and certain note, and the battle to which the trumpet calls is likely to be the decisive one for our people. As most of you know, the militant advocates of racial equivalence and racial integration tried to prevent this conference ...
Holodeck Law - Litigation Vortex
Post Date: 2006-02-13 10:50:45 by christine
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by Linda L. Kennedy, ATTORNEY © 2001 Linda L. Kennedy Office: 416 London Street Portsmouth, VA 23704 (757) 397-0060/ (757) 397-0295 WBFLegal@aol.com Host of Hot seat for Judges Radio Show on http://www.crusaderadio.com/ Reproduced with permission of the author These vignettes are from Kennedy's book "Holodeck Law" where nothing is as it appears, and where the plaintiff is never to be seen again - with money. She states: I hope these early chapter releases will help those good people who are still shocked when faced with the reality of the court and justice systems, and also for some who still have not yet grasped what is occurring, or who are still unwilling to believe ...
The Original 13th Article of Amendment
Post Date: 2006-02-13 07:14:08 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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The Original 13th Article of Amendment The Original Thirteenth Article of Amendment To The Constitution For The United States The Original 13th Amendment This Article of Amendment, ratified in 1819 and which just "disappeared" in 1876, added an enforceable strict penalty, i.e., inability to hold office and loss of citizenship, for violations of the already existing constitutional prohibition in Article 1, Section 9, Clause 8 on titles of nobility and other conflicts of citizenship interest, such as accepting emoluments of any kind for services or favors rendered or to be rendered, and is particularly applicable today in the 21st Century as government is increasingly FOR SALE ...
Agenda 21 - A World-wide Blueprint for International Totalitarian Control
Post Date: 2006-02-12 22:22:53 by Zipporah
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Agenda 21 - A World-wide Blueprint for International Totalitarian Control According to the United Nations, "Agenda 21 is a comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments, and Major Groups in every area in which human impacts on the environment."Agenda 21 is actually a world-wide blueprint for international totalitarian control of all the earth, and its resources - including "human resources". The goal of Agenda 21 is "sustainable development" - a term used to expound upon the U.N. position that human beings are destroying the earth’s atmosphere, its wildlife, and ...
VA Nurse Investigated for “Sedition” for Criticizing Bush
Post Date: 2006-02-12 15:01:24 by Grumble Jones
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VA Nurse Investigated for “Sedition” for Criticizing Bush by Matthew Rothschild Laura Berg is a clinical nurse specialist at the VA Medical Center in Albuquerque, where she has worked for 15 years. Shortly after Katrina, she wrote a letter to the editor of the weekly paper the Alibi criticizing the Bush Administration. After the paper published the letter in its September 15-21 issue, VA administrators seized her computer, alleged that she had written the letter on that computer, and accused her of “sedition.” Here’s what her letter said. “I am furious with the tragically misplaced priorities and criminal negligence of this government,” it began. ...
CIA chief sacked for opposing torture
Post Date: 2006-02-12 11:53:41 by Zipporah
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The CIA’s top counter-terrorism official was fired last week because he opposed detaining Al-Qaeda suspects in secret prisons abroad, sending them to other countries for interrogation and using forms of torture such as “water boarding”, intelligence sources have claimed. Robert Grenier, head of the CIA counter-terrorism centre, was relieved of his post after a year in the job. One intelligence official said he was “not quite as aggressive as he might have been” in pursuing Al-Qaeda leaders and networks. Vincent Cannistraro, a former head of counter-terrorism at the agency, said: “It is not that Grenier wasn’t aggressive enough, it is that he ...
Masterful Spin at LP
Post Date: 2006-02-12 11:18:09 by avian virus
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As everyone knows, I am an aficionado of well executed spin and half truths.
I saw a masterful example this morning on LP at the following link:
http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=129152
Note what the the article says:
Sometime in the early 1970s Carter spied on two Vietnamese - while they were overseas if my memory serves me correctly.
In 1977, the two men challenged the spying and Carter's actions were upheld for the specific case.
One year later, in 1978, Congress passed FISA to place standards and procedures on this sort of thing.
Bush ignored these standards and procedures.
The maxim that statute overrules precedent is ignored by the authors ...
Programmer Jeff Dean worked for chief of White House Plumbers unit
Post Date: 2006-02-12 11:05:55 by Zipporah
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by Bev Harris, Kathleen Wynne, and John Howard January 26, 2006 Convicted of 23 felonies for computer crimes, Jeffrey Dean was sent to prison for four years. Shortly after his release from incarceration, his company was awarded one of the largest ballot printing contracts in history. In a 2003 deposition, Dean states that he was a scapegoat who was left holding the bag in a series of unapproved payments from Culp, Guterson & Grader, one of the most politically connected law firms in Washington state. One of this firm's partners at the time was Egil "Bud" Krogh, who headed the White House "plumbers" unit under Richard Nixon. Krogh ordered the burglary of Pentagon ...
FreeRepublic On FISA 11/30/2000 (A Trip Down Memory Lane)
Post Date: 2006-02-12 10:19:11 by Zipporah
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FreeRepublic On FISA 11/30/2000 (A Trip Down Memory Lane) (Cross-posted here, on DailyKos.)Lately on RedState, they've been pushing this "biggest WMD story of all time," with regards to Iraq and intel, that's going to be released at the Intelligence Summit on Feb. 18th, 2006. I covered this a little while ago in a diary entitled New WMD Evidence Surfaces.Well, I saw someone at RedState drop a comment about it again and so I started doing some Googling to find some more info on this Intelligence Summit. What I found was...almost eerie. Found at FreeRepublic. Yes, I'm probably quoting way more than I should but A) I'm saving you the trouble of visiting FR but more ...
A Sheep-Like Nation Is Allowing Bush To Erode Our Liberties And Well-Being
Post Date: 2006-02-12 00:32:40 by Brian S
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“If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.” — President George W. Bush, Dec. 18, 2000 “As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air — however slight — lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.” — Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas What is it going to take for the American people to wake up to the presidential coup d’état that is now under way, a takeover that is occurring in broad daylight by ...
Congress Attempts to Kill the "Third-Party Threat"
Post Date: 2006-02-12 00:05:40 by Brian S
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Proposed Legislation Creates Treasury-Funded Campaigns for the Two Major Parties, Leaving Third Parties with No Means to Run (Washington, D.C.) On February 1, congressional Democrats, led by Rep. Obey of Wisconsin, introduced a bill, H.R. 4694, that would end viable, third-party competition in races for the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill, ironically named the "Let the People Decide Clean Campaign Act," would mandate public funds (taken from the U.S. Treasury) to candidates for the House of Representatives and forbid candidates from taking private funds such as contributions from individual donors. The ambiguously-written bill provides funds for candidates of the ...
Bob Barr, Bane of the Right?
Post Date: 2006-02-11 16:33:23 by aristeides
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Bob Barr, Bane of the Right? By Dana Milbank Saturday, February 11, 2006; Page A02 You could find just about everything at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference this week: the bumper sticker that says "Happiness is Hillary's face on a milk carton," the "Straight Pride" T-shirt, a ride on an F-22 Raptor simulator at the Lockheed exhibit, and beans from the Contra Cafe coffee company (slogan: "Wake up with freedom fighters"). As of midday yesterday, a silent auction netted $300 for lunch with activist Grover Norquist, $275 for a meal with the Heritage Foundation president and $1,000 for a hunting trip with the American Conservative Union ...
Attention in N.S.A. Debate Turns to Telecom Industry
Post Date: 2006-02-11 11:15:04 by robin
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Attention in N.S.A. Debate Turns to Telecom Industry By SCOTT SHANE WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 — Though much of official Washington has been caught up in the debate over the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program, one set of major players has kept a discreet silence: the telecommunications corporations. Some companies are said by current and former government officials to have provided the eavesdropping agency access to streams of telephone and Internet traffic entering and leaving the United States. The N.S.A. has used its powerful computers to search the masses of data for clues to terrorist plots and, without court warrants, zeroed in on some Americans for ...
More Medicines From Abroad Seized
Post Date: 2006-02-11 10:56:20 by robin
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More Medicines From Abroad Seized By Lisa Girion Times Staff Writer February 11, 2006 The U.S. government apparently is stepping up seizures of cheap drugs ordered by Americans — mainly seniors — from abroad, Canadian pharmacies say. The pharmacies, which sell drugs by mail and over the Internet, say their shipments are being intercepted by U.S. Customs officials around the country where foreign mail is handled. "It's huge — we've had over 800 seizures in January," up from 15 in a typical month, said Barney Britton, president of Calgary-based MinitDrugs. Other pharmacies reported four- to five-fold increases. An informal survey of 30 Canadian pharmacies that ...
Think How Lucky We Were
Post Date: 2006-02-11 07:18:35 by Zoroaster
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Saturday, February 11, 2006 Featured Views Published on Thursday, February 9, 2006 by the Columbus Free Press (Ohio) Think How Lucky We Were by Molly Ivins Once upon a time, in the middle of a nasty constitutional crisis in Washington, a most unlikely hero emerged -- a Texas lawyer from one of our state's notoriously discriminated-against racial minorities. Think how lucky we were. It is one of the most famous sentences in all of American rhetoric: "My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total." But what catches the eye today is the sentence that followed that famous declaration, the sentence that makes one so ashamed for Al Gonzales. Barbara Jordan's ...
VA Nurse Investigated for “Sedition” for Criticizing Bush
Post Date: 2006-02-10 16:18:21 by Zipporah
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VA Nurse Investigated for “Sedition” for Criticizing BushBy Matthew RothschildFebruary 8, 2006 Laura Berg is a clinical nurse specialist at the VA Medical Center in Albuquerque, where she has worked for 15 years. Shortly after Katrina, she wrote a letter to the editor of the weekly paper the Alibi criticizing the Bush Administration. After the paper published the letter in its September 15-21 issue, VA administrators seized her computer, alleged that she had written the letter on that computer, and accused her of “sedition.” Here’s what her letter said. “I am furious with the tragically misplaced priorities and criminal negligence of this government,” it ...
Conscientious Juror Persecuted by State of Idaho (Officer Jack McLamb's Assistant)
Post Date: 2006-02-10 10:29:27 by christine
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66-year old retired school teacher charged with felony for exercising rights > as juror > > Kamiah, Idaho - Feb 1: Carol Asher, a 66-year old retired nun and school > teacher faces the possibility of 14 years in prison for exercising her right > to free speech in the privacy and sanctity of the jury deliberation room. > What did she say? As nearly as we have been able to learn, she may have > told the other jurors that ultimately, she answered to a Higher Authority > than the judge. Now she has been charged by Lawrence G. Wasden, who is the > Idaho Attorney General, by Stephen A. Bywater, who is Deputy Attorney > General, Chief, Criminal Division, and by Justin ...
Tentative Deal Is Reached on Patriot Act
Post Date: 2006-02-09 18:39:35 by Zipporah
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AP Special Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) -- A band of Senate Republican holdouts reached agreement Thursday with the White House on minor changes in the Patriot Act, hoping to clear the way for passage of anti-terror legislation stalled in a dispute over protection of civil liberties. Sen. John Sununu, R-N.H., and three other GOP lawmakers - all of whom joined with Democrats last year to block a long-term extension of the law - were to announce the accord later Thursday. White House press secretary Scott McClellan pre-empted them, saying the changes "continue to build upon the civil liberties protections that are in place but do so in a way that doesn't compromise our national ...
Pictures of Bush with Abramoff?
Post Date: 2006-02-09 14:58:53 by aristeides
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I don't know how to post images, so I'll just post a link. I got the link from the Forum for AMERICAblog, along with the claim that the pictures are of a one-on-one meeting between Bush and Abramoff. They are certainly of a meeting at the White House between Bush and someone who looks as if he might be Abramoff, dated Dec. 23, 2003, which was before Abramoff became radioactive.
US plans massive data sweep
Post Date: 2006-02-08 21:10:01 by Zipporah
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CONCERN: GOP Rep. Curt Weldon (l.) and Democrat Sen. Russell Feingold want details on federal data-mining.AP/FILE US plans massive data sweep Little-known data-collection system could troll news, blogs, even e-mails. Will it go too far?By Mark Clayton | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor The US government is developing a massive computer system that can collect huge amounts of data and, by linking far-flung information from blogs and e-mail to government records and intelligence reports, search for patterns of terrorist activity. The system - parts of which are operational, parts of which are still under development - is already credited with helping to foil ...
Guantanamo's Grip
Post Date: 2006-02-08 19:11:28 by Zipporah
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You may have seen an image of Detainee 032. He came to Guantanamo Bay early on, a slender 18-year-old Yemeni among the anonymous men who knelt, dressed in orange, for the photographs viewed around the world. He was there on January 27, 2002, when Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld took four senators to see the "most dangerous, best-trained, vicious killers on the face of the earth." He was there two days later, when President Bush proudly declared in his State of the Union address that the "terrorists who once occupied Afghanistan now occupy cells at Guantanamo Bay," and he was there one week later when Bush firmly and finally ruled out prisoner-of-war status for any of ...
Wanted: Competent Big Brothers
Post Date: 2006-02-08 19:05:57 by Zipporah
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As the Senate frets over whether the NSA has violated the outdated Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, no one is paying attention to the real issue: proficiency. Newsweek Updated: 2:58 p.m. ET Feb. 8, 2006 Feb. 8, 2006 - Sen. Joseph Biden was uncharacteristically succinct. "How will we know when this war is over?" Biden asked Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Monday at a Senate hearing on the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program. Biden never really got a good answer, but his question still resonates. The Bush administration calls the war on terror "the long war." But if we are to take the president and his aides at their word, it is ...
EXCLUSIVE EMAILS: Jack Abramoff Describes Relationship With President Bush
Post Date: 2006-02-08 16:46:16 by aristeides
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EXCLUSIVE EMAILS: Jack Abramoff Describes Relationship With President Bush ThinkProgress has obtained emails written by Jack Abramoff in which the fallen lobbyist personally describes his relationship with President Bush. They depict a relationship far more extensive than has been previously reported. The emails written by Abramoff were addressed to Kim Eisler, the national editor of Washingtonian magazine. The Washingtonian recently reported on the existence of several photographs showing Abramoff and Bush together. Eisler is also the author of Revenge of the Pequots, a book about tribal politics for which Abramoff was interviewed. In the emails, Abramoff describes meeting Bush ...
The NSA's relationship with Reuters and AP
Post Date: 2006-02-08 00:04:14 by robin
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Sometimes Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) responses produce unexpected results. Such is the case in a recent response from the secretive United States government’s National Security Agency (NSA) -- the agency that is now in the public limelight for listening to U.S. citizen’s telephone conversations without legal authorization or oversight. In a letter dated February 2, 2006 and signed by its Director of Policy, the NSA revealed that it has contracts with at least two of the major mainstream press wire services, Reuters and Associated Press (AP), and that the information that it had received from these wire services could not be released to the public. Here in part is what the ...
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