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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
FBI, Pentagon pay for access to trove of public records
Post Date: 2005-11-12 18:41:29 by Eoghan
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To help the government track suspected terrorists and spies who may be visiting or residing in this country, the FBI and the Defense Department for the past three years have been paying a Georgia-based company for access to its vast databases that contain billions of personal records about nearly every person -- citizens and noncitizens alike -- in the United States. According to federal documents obtained by National Journal and Government Executive, among the services that ChoicePoint provides to the government is access to a previously undisclosed, and vaguely described, "exclusive" data-searching system. This system in effect gives law enforcement and intelligence agents the ...
Driver Licensing vs. the Right to Travel
Post Date: 2005-11-12 10:58:13 by NOLAJBS
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"This is a twenty page brief.. cut ..paste and share with your local Law Enforcement Friends.. Yours in Taking Rights Back,PatrickHenry"The following argument has been used in at least three states (Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia) as a legal brief to support a demand for dismissal of charges of "driving without a license." It is the argument that was the reason for the charges to be dropped, or for a "win" in court against the argument that free people can have their right to travel regulated by their servants. The forgotten legal maxim is that free people have a right to travel on the roads which are provided by their servants for that purpose, using ...
PROFESSOR AT BYU THINKS BOMBS, NOT PLANES, TOPPLED WTC
Post Date: 2005-11-12 04:26:43 by Uncle Bill
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Y. professor thinks bombs, not planes, toppled WTC Deseret Morning News, Thursday, November 10, 2005 By Elaine Jarvik The physics of 9/11 — including how fast and symmetrically one of the World Trade Center buildings fell — prove that official explanations of the collapses are wrong, says a Brigham Young University physics professor. In fact, it's likely that there were "pre-positioned explosives" in all three buildings at ground zero, says Steven E. Jones. In a paper posted online Tuesday and accepted for peer-reviewed publication next year, Jones adds his voice to those of previous skeptics, including the authors of the Web site ...
Power Uber Alles
Post Date: 2005-11-12 01:38:12 by Zoroaster
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November 12, 2005 Power Über Alles by Paul Craig Roberts Perfidy loves company. George W. Bush instructed his British puppet, Prime Minister Tony Blair, to get moving on the detention issue so that he, Bush, would have company when he attacked the Constitution's guarantee of habeas corpus. Habeas corpus prevents authorities from detaining a person indefinitely without charges; the guarantee of habeas corpus ensures that no one can imprison you without a trial. The Bush administration wants the power to detain indefinitely anyone it declares to be an enemy combatant or a terrorist without presenting the detainee in court with charges. In England the power to arrest people and to ...
A Return to Gridlock? Let's Hope So
Post Date: 2005-11-12 00:35:31 by Coral Snake
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A Return to Gridlock? Let's Hope So Kevin Tuma The recent elections confirm the beginnings of what has been needed for quite some time…a smack-down of the political party currently in power. If American voters can focus for one more year and get off their couches long enough to express their displeasure, the Republicans will face a fearful reckoning at the polls. This comeuppance is long overdue. The Republican Party has had over a decade of congressional leadership--and half a decade of supreme executive power--to demonstrate that it stands for fiscal responsibility, smaller, less intrusive government, and strict constructionism of the Constitution. Instead, we have seen runaway ...
IBM calls for global identity management solution
Post Date: 2005-11-11 15:36:04 by boonie rat
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IBM calls for global identity management solution ZDNet Asia November 10, 2005, 09:45 GMT The growing need for fast, accurate verification of personal identities has prompted a call from an industry observer for a global agency to set international standards. The realm of identity and access management (IAM) is heating up as nations like the UK and the US increase their use of biometrics and other identifying technology in ID cards, border controls and other areas. Beyond different governments "trying to create a mosaic for what they want as good identity management", wider international cooperation is needed to establish a common language and standards, said Cal Slemp, ...
Justice Dept. May Sue Over Scholarships (intentional discrimination against whites, non-preferred minorities and males)
Post Date: 2005-11-11 13:52:46 by Zipporah
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CARBONDALE, Ill. — Federal prosecutors are threatening to sue Southern Illinois University over three small graduate school scholarship programs aimed at women and minorities, saying they were discriminatory. SIU "has engaged in a pattern or practice of intentional discrimination against whites, non-preferred minorities and males," the Justice Department said in a letter. A copy of the letter was obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times. The graduate scholarships, or fellowships, violate Title VII of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964, the department said. The letter demands SIU discontinue the fellowship programs or its civil rights division will sue the university by Nov. 18. ...
Makes it Illegal to Own A Card Reader
Post Date: 2005-11-11 13:15:17 by boonie rat
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Synopsis As Introduced Amends the Illinois Identification Card Act and the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that it is unlawful to possess, use, or allow to be used, any materials, hardware, or software specifically designed or primarily used for the reading of encrypted language from the bar code or magnetic strip of an official Illinois Identification Card, Disabled Person Identification Card, driver's license, or permit. Provides that, after a dealer buys a vehicle and holds it for resale, the dealer must procure the certificate of title from the owner or lienholder. Provides that the only vehicles that may be registered are those that (i) were originally manufactured for operation on ...
Prosecutors in Italy file request to extradite 22 CIA operatives
Post Date: 2005-11-10 22:40:55 by Uncle Bill
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Prosecutors in Italy file request to extradite 22 CIA operatives Chicago Tribune BY JOHN CREWDSON AND ALESSANDRA MAGGIORANI November 10, 2005 MILAN, Italy - Italian prosecutors on Thursday formally asked their government to seek the extradition of 22 U.S. Central Intelligence Agency operatives charged with kidnapping a radical Muslim preacher here nearly three years ago. Prosecutor General Donatella Grieco on Thursday delivered a 477-page, 190,000-word document to Italy's Ministry of Justice in Rome, intended to support the prosecution's case against a panoply of CIA operatives including paramilitary 007-types, middle-aged women who are experts in physical surveillance, and ...
ITALY JUDGE CHARGES 13 CIA AGENTS
Post Date: 2005-11-10 22:16:17 by Uncle Bill
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Italy Charges CIA Agents Chicago Tribune By John Crewdson, Tom Hundley and Liz Sly, Tribune correspondents June 25, 2005 In rare act by ally, officials seek arrests of U.S. agents in kidnapping of imam who allegedly was tortured in Egypt Four days before Osama Nasr Mostafa Hassan vanished into the thin Italian air, three middle-aged American visitors checked into the $300-a-night Milan Hilton on Via Luigi Galvani. The Americans, a man and two women, might have been tourists or fashion buyers, the hotel's usual foreign clientele. The U.S. passports and visa cards, the driver's licenses, even the frequent-flyer IDs they presented to the desk clerk were genuine enough. Only the names on ...
GOP memo touts new terror attack as way to reverse party's decline [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2005-11-10 18:39:05 by Uncle Bill
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GOP memo touts new terror attack as way to reverse party's decline Capitol Hill Blue By DOUG THOMPSON Publisher, Capitol Hill Blue Nov 10, 2005, 06:19 A confidential memo circulating among senior Republican leaders suggests that a new attack by terrorists on U.S. soil could reverse the sagging fortunes of President George W. Bush as well as the GOP and "restore his image as a leader of the American people." The closely-guarded memo lays out a list of scenarios to bring the Republican party back from the political brink, including a devastating attack by terrorists that could “validate” the President’s war on terror and allow Bush to “unite the country” ...
Martial Law in a Nutshell--15 Questions
Post Date: 2005-11-10 18:04:37 by boonie rat
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Martial Law in a Nutshell--15 Questions Mary Maxwell, Ph.D | November 10 2005 1. Q: Is it likely that martial law is imminent in the U.S.? A: Yes. The way has been partially cleared for it legally by the Homeland Security Act, that 'grandfathered in' the whole of a secret 1979 executive order dealing with emergency rule. One legal hurdle to martial law still remains, namely, the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which explicitly forbids soldiers to participate in domestic law enforcement. However, Congress could easily annul the Posse Comitatus Act, and is being pressured by the attorney general and the Pentagon to do just that. 2. Q: What is martial law? A: In popular usage, martial law ...
The People Win Prop 9!
Post Date: 2005-11-09 18:39:27 by timetobuildaboat
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The People Win Prop 9! Prop 1 Rail Fund Fight - Far From Over. Austin, TX - While the controversial Constitutional Amendment 2 soaked up the limelight in this election, a grassroots whisper campaign for accountability took hold across central Texas, uniting urban and rural communities. With virtually no dollars, the movement against the tolling of the public highways and against the mammoth Trans Texas Corridor scored an important victory and exposed the vulnerability of Governor Rick Perry. Farmers and ranchers from the Texas blacklands, suburban "soccer moms", and central city dwellers from Austin, most having never participated in political campaigns in their lives, worked ...
Congress May Curb Some Patriot Act Powers
Post Date: 2005-11-09 17:29:53 by Zipporah
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WASHINGTON - Congress is moving to curb some of the police powers it gave the Bush administration after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, including imposing new restrictions on the FBI's access to private phone and financial records. A budding House-Senate deal on the expiring USA Patriot Act includes new limits on federal law enforcement powers and rejects the Bush administration's request to grant the FBI authority to get administrative subpoenas for wiretaps and other covert devices without a judge's approval. Even with the changes, however, every part of the law set to expire Dec. 31 would be reauthorized and most of those provisions would become permanent. Under the agreement, for the ...
Martial Law in a Nutshell--15 Questions
Post Date: 2005-11-09 17:26:00 by Eoghan
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1. Q: Is it likely that martial law is imminent in the U.S.? A: Yes. The way has been partially cleared for it legally by the Homeland Security Act, that 'grandfathered in' the whole of a secret 1979 executive order dealing with emergency rule. One legal hurdle to martial law still remains, namely, the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which explicitly forbids soldiers to participate in domestic law enforcement. However, Congress could easily annul the Posse Comitatus Act, and is being pressured by the attorney general and the Pentagon to do just that. 2. Q: What is martial law? A: In popular usage, martial law means that some or all civil liberties are suspended. For example, there could ...
THE DARK HEART OF DICK CHENEY
Post Date: 2005-11-09 06:41:23 by Kamala
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THE DARK HEART OF DICK CHENEY WASHINGTON -- Dick Cheney is, by all accounts, probably the oddest -- and the most dourly ambitious -- duck in the administration's pond of wing-flapping, sky-diving and prideful birds. He rarely speaks, running things quietly and secretly from behind the White House's closed doors, where he maintains his own administrative staff (roughly 60 persons, almost as many as the president's). When he does speak, it is usually either a sarcastic observation or rejoinder. As to his knowledge of Iraq, many remember how, on "Meet the Press" just before the Iraq war, he told Tim Russert, "I really do believe that we will be greeted as liberators." He ...
FOX News Conclusion: With Economy Tanking and Bush Not Able To Speak Like Clinton - Impeachment Looms
Post Date: 2005-11-09 05:45:34 by Uncle Bill
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In Scandalous Times, Bush Could Learn from Clinton Fox News Friday, November 04, 2005 By Patrick Basham With the White House shrouded in scandal, the biggest obstacle to George W. Bush’s political comeback is that he’s no Bill Clinton. The heaviest millstone around the president’s political neck isn’t the case against Scooter Libby or the continuing investigation into Karl Rove. Rather, it’s the growing public perception that, unlike President Clinton in the 1990s, Bush is presiding over an unsuccessful, even incompetent, administration. Scandal’s ability to upset the political apple cart is such that some observers argue scandals are now the primary means ...
THE DARK HEART OF DICK CHENEY
Post Date: 2005-11-09 05:33:37 by Zoroaster
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THE DARK HEART OF DICK CHENEY WASHINGTON -- Dick Cheney is, by all accounts, probably the oddest -- and the most dourly ambitious -- duck in the administration's pond of wing-flapping, sky-diving and prideful birds. He rarely speaks, running things quietly and secretly from behind the White House's closed doors, where he maintains his own administrative staff (roughly 60 persons, almost as many as the president's). When he does speak, it is usually either a sarcastic observation or rejoinder. As to his knowledge of Iraq, many remember how, on "Meet the Press" just before the Iraq war, he told Tim Russert, "I really do believe that we will be greeted as liberators." ...
AMERICAN PERSONAL SAVINGS RATE
Post Date: 2005-11-09 04:09:03 by Uncle Bill
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The New Sharecroppers Congressman McFadden on the Federal Reserve Corporation - Remarks in Congress, 1934 Personal savings are at lows not seen since the Great Depression
Bush's Sinking Ship of State
Post Date: 2005-11-09 01:59:42 by Uncle Bill
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Bush's sinking Ship of State: A bitter lesson in domestic, foreign policies Bluefield Daily Telegraph By DON ZIEGLER November 2, 2005 Those splashing sounds you hear are Republican after Republican jumping overboard and swimming frantically away, not willing to sink beneath the waves with their leader. The GOP faithful are bailing out on George W. Bush, aware that close association with him could spell doom for them in the 2006 midterm elections, or worse, give the Democratic Party the upper hand in the 2008 presidential election. Katrina and the disjointed FEMA response, revelations of rampant cronyism throughout various departments of government, the Iraq war, the ho-hum economy, ...
"83% of Americans support mandatory detention and forfeiture of property for illegal immigrants, followed by deportation"
Post Date: 2005-11-09 01:29:49 by Uncle Bill
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Illegals The Political 'Untouchables'Chicago Sun-Times By Mark Steyn January 11, 2004 According to a RoperASW poll from last year, 83 percent of Americans support mandatory detention and forfeiture of property for illegal immigrants, followed by deportation. Eighty-three percent. Pretty big number. So who are the 17 percent who don't think illegal immigrants should be seized, jailed, have their property confiscated and deported? Well, they're pretty much everyone in the two major parties, plus the entire U.S. media. So why don't they think as the masses do? In the media and the Democratic Party, everyone seems to subscribe to the wisdom of Carol Moseley Braun's mom. As Ambassador Braun ...
Time Reporter Says He Learned Agent's Identity From Rove
Post Date: 2005-11-09 01:20:22 by Uncle Bill
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Time Reporter Says He Learned Agent's Identity From Rove Matthew Cooper Says I. Lewis Libby Confirmed Information One of the reporters at the center of the investigation into the leak of the identity of an undercover CIA officer, says he first learned the agent's name from President Bush's top political advisor, Karl Rove. Time magazine reporter Matt Cooper also said today in an interview with "Good Morning America," that the vice president's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, confirmed to him that Ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, was a CIA operative. A grand jury charged Libby on Friday with five felonies alleging obstruction of justice, ...
White House staff begins ethics classes
Post Date: 2005-11-08 19:16:23 by Uncle Bill
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White House staff begins ethics classes 3,000 workers to attend mandatory briefings in wake of CIA leak case WASHINGTON - The White House began mandatory, hourlong briefings Tuesday for an estimated 3,000 staffers on ethics and the handling of classified information in response to the indictment of a top official in the CIA leak investigation. Among those who attended the first ethics briefing were some assistants to the president with top security clearances, White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters. President Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove, was not among the first group, although he was expected to attend an ethics class later this week. The White House counsel's ...
Social Security Card Burn
Post Date: 2005-11-08 10:07:38 by boonie rat
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For Immediate Release Subject: Social Security Card Burn When Social Security was first foisted on America, the cards were imprinted with, "Not to be used for Identification." People were wary of the tyranny involved with a national ID card, so the government had to promise that the Social Security number would never be used for ID. They have broken that promise. As Americans became resigned to the idea of having a national number, the promise was quietly removed from the cards. Now, of course, the social security number is used for so many purposes, it is a defacto national ID number. Doctors, banks, motor vehicle departments, utilities companies…the list is endless of ...
AN ENEMY OF THE STATE
Post Date: 2005-11-08 00:23:00 by Uncle Bill
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An Enemy of The State Capitol Hill Blue By DOUG THOMPSON Nov 7, 2005, 08:14 According to a printout from a computer controlled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Department of Justice, I am an enemy of the state. The printout, shown to me recently by a friend who works for Justice, identifies me by a long, multi-digit number, lists my date of birth, place of birth, social security number and contains more than 100 pages documenting what the Bureau and the Bush Administration consider to be my threats to the security of the United States of America. It lists where I sent to school, the name and address of the first wife that I had been told was dead but who is alive and ...
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