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The Greatest Debt-Beat President in History
Post Date: 2005-12-04 01:20:17 by Uncle Bill
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The Greatest Debt-Beat President in History LewRockwell.com by Bill Bonner December 3, 2005 We have not been timid about pleading the old man’s case. He has spent a lifetime learning how things work, and now, he is ignored. He has committed the seven deadly sins…the classic ones, and a few more he invented. He has seen the result, but does any young whippersnapper ask his advice? No. Every callow sprig wants to make the same errors. Gluttony…avarice…pride. He feels he has a right to them. He envies those richer than himself, and covets his neighbor’s wife…as well as his new BMW. "There is no use telling him anything," says the geezer to himself, ...
A 50 year lawyer speaks out
Post Date: 2005-12-03 17:44:37 by christine
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When a lawyer puts on a robe and takes the bench, he or she is called a judge. But in reality, when judges look down from the bench they are lawyers looking upon fellow members of their fraternity. In any other area of the free-enterprise system, this would be seen as a conflict of interest. By the time I ended my 50-year career as a trial attorney, judge and president of southern Arizona's largest law firm, I no longer had confidence in the legal fraternity I had participated in and, yes, profited from. --John F. Molloy Law loses its way Today the skill and gamesmanship of lawyers, not the truth, often determine the outcome of a case Tucson, Arizona - When I began practicing law in ...
Military Admits Planting News in Iraq
Post Date: 2005-12-03 11:53:37 by robin
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December 3, 2005 Military Admits Planting News in Iraq By ERIC SCHMITT WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 - The military acknowledged Friday in a briefing for a ranking Senate Republican that news articles written by American troops had been placed as paid advertisements in the Iraqi news media and not always properly identified. Senator John W. Warner of Virginia, who heads the Senate Armed Services Committee, told reporters after receiving a 25-minute briefing from officials at the Pentagon that senior commanders in Iraq were trying to get to the bottom of a program that apparently also paid monthly stipends to friendly Iraqi journalists. Mr. Warner said there had been no indications yet that the paid ...
Censorship and Free Speech [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2005-12-03 08:40:00 by A K A Stone
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In the United States, we have the First Amendment of the Constitution that guarantees us certain things. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. This is less of a concern to some countries, such as China. However, modern communication capabilities can affect free speech in a lot of ways, both enhancing and diminishing, depending on how it is used. No matter how you look at it, freedom of speech will be affected in every country. What's The Difference? ...
HEIL HITLER! IT HAS BEGUN
Post Date: 2005-12-02 22:34:31 by Uncle Bill
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HEIL HITLER! IT HAS BEGUN By: Devvy KiddDecember 1, 2005 NewsWithViews.com"If we wish to be free, if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending, if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained - we must fight!" Patrick Henry Anyone who doesn't recognize that a police state is being erected right in front of their eyes is either in a state of denial or welcomes a repeat of Nazi Germany under Adolph Hitler. Two months ago a woman named Deborah Davis was reading a ...
GAO Report on Electronic Voting
Post Date: 2005-12-02 22:04:06 by boonie rat
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Schneier on Security A weblog covering security and security technology. December 02, 2005 GAO Report on Electronic Voting The full report, dated September 2005, is 107-pages long. Here's the "Results in Brief" section: While electronic voting systems hold promise for a more accurate and efficient election process, numerous entities have raised concerns about their security and reliability, citing instances of weak security controls, system design flaws, inadequate system version control, inadequate security testing, incorrect system configuration, poor security management, and vague or incomplete voting system standards, among other issues. For example, studies found (1) ...
Politicians and Americans Ignore Impending U.S. Debt Disaster - $72 Trillion
Post Date: 2005-12-02 19:29:01 by Uncle Bill
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Speeches Ignore Impending U.S. Debt Disaster No mention of fiscal gap estimated as high as $72 trillion San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Bureau By Carolyn Lochhead September 12, 2004PDF File Washington -- The first of the 77 million-strong Baby Boom generation will begin to retire in just four years. The economic consequences of this fact -- as scary as they are foreseeable -- are all but ignored by President Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry, who discuss just about everything but the biggest fiscal challenge of modern times. Yet whoever wins the 2004 race will become the first U.S. president to confront what sober-minded experts across the political spectrum describe as an ...
4TH CIRCUIT WANTS ANSWERS ON PADILLA: Appellate Court Set to Withdraw Opinion After Government Charges
Post Date: 2005-12-02 17:20:51 by aristeides
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4TH CIRCUIT WANTS ANSWERS ON PADILLA Appellate Court Set to Withdraw Opinion After Government Charges BY MOLLY McDONOUGH The novelties of law relating to the case against "dirty bomb" suspect Jose Padilla keep coming, one right after another. After having served three years in detention on a military brig as an enemy combatant accused of trying to set off a radiological dirty bomb targeting Americans, the government finally charged Padilla with a series of crimes. But last week’s indictment announced by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales didn’t mention those earlier allegations, the same allegations that persuaded the Richmond, Va.-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of ...
Justice Staff Saw Texas Redistricting As Illegal
Post Date: 2005-12-02 12:17:49 by Steppenwolf
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Justice Staff Saw Texas Redistricting As Illegal Voting Rights Finding On Map Pushed by DeLay Was Overruled By Dan Eggen Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, December 2, 2005; Page A01 Justice Department lawyers concluded that the landmark Texas congressional redistricting plan spearheaded by Rep. Tom DeLay (R) violated the Voting Rights Act, according to a previously undisclosed memo obtained by The Washington Post. But senior officials overruled them and approved the plan. The memo, unanimously endorsed by six lawyers and two analysts in the department's voting section, said the redistricting plan illegally diluted black and Hispanic voting power in two congressional districts. It also ...
"Your Papers Please": On the Verge of Becoming Soviet-Style Police States
Post Date: 2005-12-01 20:07:29 by Coral Snake
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"Your Papers Please": On the Verge of Becoming Soviet-Style Police States Frederick Meekins Miami Police have announced plans to conduct what they are calling "high profile ID sweeps" where they intend to check the identification of everyone entering a public building. Officials claim in doing so, no one's rights are being violated; but what if one does not want to show police their driver's license or happened to have forgotten to bring it with them that day? If one refuses to participate by suddenly getting out of line and not entering the building, will that now be deemed enough probable cause to get maced in the face and a billy-club across the back of the knees? ...
Is PHXNews a Justice Dept. operation?
Post Date: 2005-12-01 14:52:49 by bluegrass
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While doing some Googling, I came across PHXNews being mirrored on the OJP Information Technology Initiatives - The Information Sharing Resource for the Justice and Public Safety Communities website. This a Justice Dept. site that is "A resource provided by the US Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs that gives justice professionals access to information sharing resources, initiatives and technological developments.", according to its description.The it.ojp.gov site is unavailable, but the Google cache works just dandily. Why would the US Dept. of Justice mirror PHXNews?
Microwave Weaponry Used on Montana Carpenter and 9/11 Researcher for 'Getting Too Close to Who Knows What'
Post Date: 2005-12-01 13:20:52 by gengis gandhi
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http://www.arcticbeacon.com/articles/article/1518131/38381.htm Microwave Weaponry Used on Montana Carpenter and 9/11 Researcher for 'Getting Too Close to Who Knows What' Dan Nelson says he's not sure exactly what piece 9/11 evidence he uncovered triggered the government assaults, but says once he tried to go public, 'all hell broke loose.' 1 Dec 2005 By Greg Szymanski Dan Nelson has lost faith in his country, lost faith in most everything. Disillusioned, he’s had a bitter taste of what it’s like to buck city hall, a bitter taste of getting pushed around by government thugs. For most of his life, Nelson, 45, lived peacefully as a carpenter in Livingston, Montana, a place ...
TOM HENEGHAN REPORTS BUSH WHITE HOUSE ABOUT TO COLLAPSE WITH THE "SMOKING GUN" EVIDENCE OF PLANTING WMD'S IN IRAQ
Post Date: 2005-11-30 20:19:06 by gengis gandhi
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DiscerningAngels/message/11552 TOM HENEGHAN REPORTS BUSH WHITE HOUSE ABOUT TO COLLAPSE WITH THE "SMOKING GUN" EVIDENCE OF PLANTING WMD'S IN IRAQ by Scott Mowry 11.22.05 Tom Heneghan appeared in a short audio briefing on cloakanddagger.de for Tuesday, November 22, 2005 and made a bold prediction in light of the recent revelations of CIA agent Valerie Plame. Heneghan has been reporting for a week now that the primary reason for the outing Plame was not in retribution against her husband Joe Wilson for disputing claims that the government of Niger had supplied Iraq with nuclear materials. But rather she was outed for the role of her CIA team in the ...
New US intelligence center to exploit publicly available information
Post Date: 2005-11-30 19:12:35 by boonie rat
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New US intelligence center to exploit publicly available information WASHINGTON, Nov 8 (PG) - US intelligence chief John Negroponte announced Tuesday the creation of a new CIA-managed center to exploit publicly available information for intelligence purposes. The so-called Open Source Center will gather and analyze information from a host of sources from the Internet and commercial databases to newspapers, radio, video, maps, publications and conference reports. Douglas Naquin, the center's director, said it will build on the work of the CIA's Foreign Broadcast Information Service, which once monitored and translated foreign radio brodcasts but has since expanded its reach to other ...
Fascism Then. Fascism Now?
Post Date: 2005-11-30 02:02:20 by h-a-l-f-w-i-t-t
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The Star By Paul Bigioni Observing political and economic discourse in North America since the 1970s leads to an inescapable conclusion: The vast bulk of legislative activity favours the interests of large commercial enterprises. Big business is very well off, and successive Canadian and U.S. governments, of whatever political stripe, have made this their primary objective for at least the past 25 years. Digging deeper into 20th century history, one finds the exaltation of big business at the expense of the citizen was a central characteristic of government policy in Germany and Italy in the years before those countries were chewed to bits and spat out by fascism. [b]Fascist dictatorships ...
Supreme Court denies FBI translator's case
Post Date: 2005-11-29 21:38:21 by Coral Snake
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Supreme Court denies FBI translator's case By TONI LOCY ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER WASHINGTON -- A former FBI translator failed Monday to persuade the Supreme Court to revive her lawsuit alleging she was fired for reporting possible wrongdoing by other linguists involved in counterterrorism investigations. The high court also rebuffed a request by Sibel Edmonds and media groups to rule on whether an appellate court improperly held arguments in the case in secret without being asked to do so by either side. "When courts are sealed, the public may suspect the worst and lose faith in their government simply because they are prohibited access," wrote lawyers for media groups, ...
Hastert Wants 'Christmas,' Tree Together
Post Date: 2005-11-29 21:01:01 by timetobuildaboat
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If it's a spruce tree adorned with 10,000 lights and 5,000 ornaments displayed on the Capitol grounds in December, it's a Christmas tree and that's what it should be called, says House Speaker Dennis Hastert. Hastert, R-Ill., in a letter to the Architect of the Capitol, recommended that the annual Capitol Holiday Tree, as it has been called the past several years, be renamed the Capitol Christmas Tree. "I strongly urge that we return to this tradition and join the White House, countless other public institutions and millions of American families in celebrating the holiday season with a Christmas tree," Hastert wrote to Architect Alan Hantman. His office said the tree began to ...
Testing
Post Date: 2005-11-29 19:17:37 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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The DRIVING force behind a World Government, David Rockefeller, forces Reagon to take GHWB as VP to pave the the way for his son W who will continue to fulfill GHWG's New World Order
M.E.R. Magazine's Brian Quig Columns from 1991 by Brian Quig
:Brian Quig wrote in 199
Goldwater's Administrative Director Tom Dunlevy... was an insider at the [1980 GOP] convention... I will always remember the very words of Tom Dunlevy following my protest of the selection of George Bush for VP. They were etched into my mind. "We didn't like that either. It was a deal with the Devil. Henry Kissinger and Gerald Ford, present at the convention as agents of David Rockefeller, assured Reagan the ...
No FOIA allowed! Look out for BARDA, a new, top secret gov’t agency.
Post Date: 2005-11-29 16:39:27 by boonie rat
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Thursday, November 17, 2005 No FOIA allowed! Look out for BARDA, a new, top secret gov’t agency. (11:17 pm) The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency (BARDA) is about to become the the first-ever government agency not obligated to provide any disclosure whatsoever to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. Senate Bill 1873, which is moving quickly through congress and would appropriate $1 BILLION in 2006 alone, includes the following statement that has raised alarm: “Information that relates to the activities, working groups, and advisory boards of the BARDA shall not be subject to disclosure under section 552 of title 5, United States Code [i.e. the FOIA], ...
The Grave Threat Is the Bush Administration
Post Date: 2005-11-29 01:30:46 by Zoroaster
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November 29, 2005 The Grave Threat Is the Bush Administration by Paul Craig Roberts According to news reports, at a U.S. Naval Academy speech on Wednesday, President Bush will announce plans for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq. It will be diverting to watch the propagandists at Fox "News" flip-flop with the White House line and explain that now is the time to cut and run after all. A month ago, the administration's line was that cutting and running was the dastardly act of cowards and traitors who would abandon our troops and all they have fought for. A month ago, senior U.S. commanders in Iraq said that the U.S.-trained new Iraqi army only had 700 troops who could operate ...
LOCKOUT, LOCKUP, SHUT UP: TAX POLICE STATE STRIKES AT IRS WHISTLEBLOWER YET AGAIN
Post Date: 2005-11-28 20:44:32 by Neil McIver
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Examine how the federal income tax enforcement apparatus has reacted to my whistle-blowing efforts over the past seven years and decide for yourself whether their reactions belie legitimate income tax administration or more layers of a massive cover up of illegitimate income tax administration. The IRS is swinging at me again and you will be amazed at what they are up to now. I NEED YOUR HELP NOW! Imagine you belong to the "inner circle" of the federal income tax enforcement apparatus and you are faced with a predicament - a well-respected IRS criminal investigator, while serving in that capacity, questions the legitimacy of the manner in which the federal income tax enforcement ...
Marble chunk falls from top of Supreme Court (YOU GOTTA SEE THIS)
Post Date: 2005-11-28 12:53:10 by gengis gandhi
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advertisement Marble chunk falls from top of Supreme Court Mon Nov 28, 2005 11:47 AM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A chunk of marble fell from near the roof of the U.S. Supreme Court onto the stairs in the front of the building but no one was injured, a court spokeswoman said on Monday. Spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said a piece marble about one-foot square, from what was thought to be dentil molding at the top of the building, fell about 9:30 a.m. (1430 GMT). There was no one on the stairs at the time, a half hour before the opening of the court's session. The marble was above the inscription near the top of the building saying, "Equal Justice Under Law" and above the ...
Legislation May Pave Way for Leaders With Divided Loyalties
Post Date: 2005-11-27 20:13:22 by BTP Holdings
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Legislation May Pave Way for Leaders With Divided Loyalties Constitutional Amendments Would Allow Immigrant Dual Loyalists to Gain High Elective Office By James P. Tucker Jr. November 21, 2005American Free Press Ready for a secretary of state, or even president, who is also a citizen of another country with divided loyalties? “While the idea may seem novel, it is not at all far-fetched,” a study released in Washington on Oct. 24 warns. “As more and more dual citizens find their place in American society, it is increasingly likely that they will find their way into positions of responsibility and power,” the report by the Center for Immigration Studies warns. ...
Pentagon Expanding Its Domestic Surveillance Activity
Post Date: 2005-11-27 15:56:38 by robin
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Pentagon Expanding Its Domestic Surveillance Activity
Fears of Post-9/11 Terrorism Spur Proposals for New Powers
By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, November 27, 2005; A06
The
Defense Department has expanded its programs aimed at gathering and
analyzing intelligence within the United States, creating new agencies,
adding personnel and seeking additional legal authority for domestic
security activities in the post-9/11 world.
The moves have taken
place on several fronts. The White House is considering expanding the
power of a little-known Pentagon agency called the Counterintelligence
Field Activity, or CIFA, which was created three years ago. ...
Dishonest, Reprehensible, Corrupt ...
Post Date: 2005-11-27 15:41:12 by christine
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George W. Bush is so desperate for allies that his hapless Asian tour took him to Ulan Bator, a first for an American president, so he could mingle with the yaks and give personal thanks for Mongolia's contribution of some 160 soldiers to "the coalition of the willing." Dick Cheney, whose honest-and-ethical poll number hit 29 percent in Newsweek's latest survey, is so radioactive that he vanished into his bunker for weeks at a time during the storms Katrina and Scootergate. The whole world can see that both men are on the run. Just how much so became clear in the brace of nasty broadsides each delivered this month about Iraq. Neither man engaged the national debate ignited by ...
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