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MARTIAL LAW: COMING TO A NEIGHBORHOOD NEAR YOU?
Post Date: 2005-11-07 18:23:33 by boonie rat
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MARTIAL LAW: COMING TO A NEIGHBORHOOD NEAR YOU? PART 1 of 2 Craig Roberts October 18, 2005 http://NewsWithViews.com Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, famous for defeating Napoleon's Grande Armee at Waterloo, once said "I've spent my entire life trying to discover what the fellow on the other side of the hill was up to." And so it is with intelligence gathering and analysis. As a former intel analyst, I've spent many years on various missions beginning in the mid-1980s and going beyond Desert Storm taking pieces of the "global threat puzzle" and trying to fit the pieces together to discover what the "other fellow" was up to, and what he would do next. ...
Antiwar Sermon Brings IRS Warning
Post Date: 2005-11-07 10:26:31 by Zipporah
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All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena risks losing its tax-exempt status because of a former rector's remarks in 2004.The Internal Revenue Service has warned one of Southern California's largest and most liberal churches that it is at risk of losing its tax-exempt status because of an antiwar sermon two days before the 2004 presidential election. Rector J. Edwin Bacon of All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena told many congregants during morning services Sunday that a guest sermon by the church's former rector, the Rev. George F. Regas, on Oct. 31, 2004, had prompted a letter from the IRS. In his sermon, Regas, who from the pulpit opposed both the Vietnam War and 1991's Gulf War, ...
America Drifts Rapidly Toward A Police State
Post Date: 2005-11-07 10:15:49 by Zoroaster
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America Drifts Rapidly Toward A Police State By Mike Whitney http://ZMag.org 11-5-5 "Those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid the terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies and pause to America's friends" -- Former Attorney General, John Ashcroft Did you know that under the terms of the new Patriot Act prosecutors will be able to seek the death penalty in cases where "defendants gave financial support to umbrella organizations without realizing that some of its adherents might eventually commit violence"? (NY Times; editorial 10-30 ...
FBI Patriot Act Plan Concerns Lawmakers
Post Date: 2005-11-06 14:12:29 by Eoghan
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Lawmakers expressed concern Sunday that the FBI was aggressively pushing the powers of the anti-terrorist USA Patriot Act to access private phone and financial records of ordinary people. ``We should be looking at that very closely,'' said Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., who is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. ``It appears to me that this is, if not abused, being close to abused.'' Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, agreed, saying the government's expanded power highlights the risks of balancing national security against individual rights. ``It does point up how dangerous this can be,'' said Hagel, who appeared with Biden on ABC's ``This ...
Christian leaders warn churches about divestment dangers
Post Date: 2005-11-05 23:33:17 by Eoghan
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Four Christian leaders from the United States travelled to Toronto last week to warn Canadian churches of the dangers of divesting in Israel and all its anti-Semitic implications. B’nai Brith Canada’s League for Human Rights hosted the Christian activists at a press briefing to coincide with a three-day conference on “morally responsible” investment in Israel that took place in Toronto from Oct. 26 to 29. Hosted by Canadian Friends of Sabeel on behalf of the Jerusalem-based Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center, the conference brought together an unknown number of registrants, including some from Israel, to explore “the emerging non-violent economic ...
The FBI's Secret Scrutiny: In Hunt for Terrorists, Bureau Examines Records of Ordinary Americans
Post Date: 2005-11-05 22:49:48 by Zipporah
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The FBI came calling in Windsor, Conn., this summer with a document marked for delivery by hand. On Matianuk Avenue, across from the tennis courts, two special agents found their man. They gave George Christian the letter, which warned him to tell no one, ever, what it said.Under the shield and stars of the FBI crest, the letter directed Christian to surrender "all subscriber information, billing information and access logs of any person" who used a specific computer at a library branch some distance away. Christian, who manages digital records for three dozen Connecticut libraries, said in an affidavit that he configures his system for privacy. But the vendors of the software he ...
Judge Orders New Jersey to Compile List of All Adult Deaths Since 1985
Post Date: 2005-11-05 21:44:58 by Dakmar
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - A judge concerned about the potential for voter fraud in Tuesday's election has ordered the state to compile the names of all adult New Jersey residents who have died since 1985. State Superior Court Judge Linda R. Feinberg made the ruling Friday after learning that the official responsible for tracking deaths had failed to do so because he didn't know it was his responsibility. The case stemmed from Republican complaints that an estimated 13,000 people who apparently have died remain on voter registration lists, including 4,755 people who reportedly voted in last November's election. The state registrar of vital statistics is required to provide counties with an ...
Movement To Ban Firearms In San Francisco
Post Date: 2005-11-05 03:17:11 by Coral Snake
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Movement To Ban Firearms In San Francisco KGO By Carolyn Tyler Nov. 2 - When you go to the polls one week from today, state propositions aren't the only measures some voters face. There are local issues as well. In San Francisco, voters will decide whether to try to ban guns in the city. Pat Barsetti owns a Smith and Wesson. Pat Barsetti, gun owner: "This has always given me a sense of protection." She would be forced to give up her gun if Proposition H passes. Four San Francisco supervisors put the measure on the ballot. It prohibits "residents from possessing handguns" in the city and bans "the manufacture, distribution, sale and transfer of firearms and ...
The Assault on Self-Defense
Post Date: 2005-11-05 02:52:46 by Coral Snake
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The Assault on Self-Defense by Doug Hagin The debate over gun control is decades old, it is also going to continue to rage on for decades to come. For many who do not really take sides or think the debate is just another partisan political fight which does not effect them, there is a new shining example of how there is no escaping this debate. The issue of gun control does indeed affect all of us. It does not matter if you own no guns or 100 guns. Whether or not you are a member of the National Rifle Association or the type of person who would never feel comfortable owning a gun matters not. The real essence of the battle between gun control advocates and gun rights advocates is not ...
Vermont Passes Resolution To Secede From The US
Post Date: 2005-11-04 18:54:01 by Kamala
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Vermont Passes Resolution To Secede From The US By Greg Szymanski 11-3-5 The members of a peaceful freedom-fighting group want no part of neo-cons running the imperialistic U.S. government. Plan to secede from the U.S. gaining momentum in the fiercely independent Green Mountain state. The neo-con band of criminals running Washington, trampling on civil rights at home and invading countries at will overseas, has led a large group of strong-minded Vermont freedom-fighters with no choice but to secede from the United States. And last Friday at the state capital building in Montpelier, a historic independence convention was held, the first of its kind in the United ...
A 24/7 Wireless Tracking Network
Post Date: 2005-11-04 17:17:04 by boonie rat
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Schneier on Security November 04, 2005 A 24/7 Wireless Tracking Network It's at MIT: MIT's newly upgraded wireless network — extended this month to cover the entire school — doesn't merely get you online in study halls, stairwells or any other spot on the 9.4 million square foot campus. It also provides information on exactly how many people are logged on at any given location at any given time. It even reveals a user's identity if the individual has opted to make that data public. MIT researchers did this by developing electronic maps that track across campus, day and night, the devices people use to connect to the network, whether they're laptops, wireless PDAs or even ...
We are the New Soviet!
Post Date: 2005-11-04 10:35:09 by Zoroaster
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We are the New Soviet! Washington Post Reveals that America now runs Torture Prisons in Soviet Compounds by Dr. David Duke Sometimes, a piece of news breaks that should shock every American down to the very depths of his heart. A recent article in the Washington Post shows that American Intelligence operatives (which are now under the direction of the Neocons), have taken over old Soviet era compounds in Eastern Europe for use as secret detention-torture facilities. Patriotic Americans used to look at the Soviets as the “Empire of Evil.” A chief proof of this evil was the Soviet Gulag system and its systematic murder and torture of prisoners from the earliest days of the ...
House Vote Counters Eminent Domain Measure
Post Date: 2005-11-04 09:23:04 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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House Vote Counters Eminent Domain Measure By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer Fri Nov 4, 4:46 AM ET WASHINGTON - Conservative defenders of private property and liberal protectors of the poor joined in an overwhelming House vote to prevent local and state governments from seizing homes and businesses for use in economic development projects. The House legislation, passed 376-38, was in response to a widely criticized 5-4 ruling by the Supreme Court last June that allowed eminent domain authority to be used to obtain land for tax revenue-generating commercial purposes. That decision, said the House's third-ranked Republican, Deborah Pryce of Ohio, "dealt a blow to the rights ...
A Moral Barometer for America
Post Date: 2005-11-04 05:48:32 by Kamala
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A Moral Barometer for America by Ray McGovern The next several days will show whether our Congress has slipped its moral moorings. Seldom have moral lines been so clearly drawn. The issue is whether American armed forces and intelligence personnel should be permitted or forbidden to torture detainees. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are expected to decide whether to ban torture against all prisoners held by the United States, to merely ban torture for some of those prisoners, or to reject outright any attempt to legislate a new ban on torture. The White House and the CIA are lobbying to exempt detainees held by the CIA from an amendment ? sponsored by John McCain and endorsed by nearly all ...
On the Wal-Mart Money Trail
Post Date: 2005-11-03 22:38:56 by robin
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Click here to return to the browser-optimized version of this page. This article can be found on the web at http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051121/featherstoneOn the Wal-Mart Money Trail by LIZA FEATHERSTONE [from the November 21, 2005 issue] With a combined fortune of more than $90 billion, the Waltons--the immediate heirs of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton--are the richest family in the world. Five of the country's ten richest individuals are members of Sam's immediate family: his wife, Helen, and their three surviving children--Rob, Jim and Alice--as well as his late son John's widow, Christy (John Walton died in June when his private plane crashed). Until recently, however, they gave ...
US Republicans Rebuff Resolution Demanding Iraq Inquiry
Post Date: 2005-11-03 19:30:14 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Republican majority in the House of Representatives rejected a resolution calling for a "substantive" investigation into abuses before and during the Iraq war. The resolution was proposed by Democrats who have used increasingly aggressive tactics in Congress to draw attention to President George W. Bush's record on the war. Republicans in the House defeated the measure by 220 votes to 191. The Democratic resolution had called for an investigation into "the manipulation of pre-war intelligence", the role of Vice President Dick Cheney into Iraq's reconstruction, the leaking of the name of a CIA agent and abuses against prisoners at Abu Ghraib ...
Liberals and Faux Conservatives: Two Sides of the Same Authoritarian Coin
Post Date: 2005-11-03 05:30:28 by Kamala
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Liberals and Faux Conservatives: Two Sides of the Same Authoritarian Coin Wednesday November 02nd 2005, 9:57 pm As it turns out, Michael Moore owns Halliburton stock. Joseph Farah's website expects us to be surprised and angered by such hypocrisy. However, this "revelation," one of many featured in a book by Peter Schweizer, is not surprising, nor are other insights into the disingenuous behavior of Nancy Pelosi, Noam Chomsky, Barbra Streisand, Ralph Nader, and other so-called liberals and Democrats. Anybody with two brain cells to rub together who is capable of reading a newspaper realizes Mikey is a hypocrite—or more accurately, a conflicted liberal. For instance: ...
In 3 of 4 cases, Supreme Court nominee Alito voted on the side of abortion rights.
Post Date: 2005-11-03 01:30:53 by Uncle Bill
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On abortion, a nuanced stand In 3 of 4 cases, Supreme Court nominee Alito voted on the side of abortion rights. The Christian Science Monitor By Warren Richey | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor November 2, 2005 WASHINGTON – If there was any doubt about where US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito stands on abortion, his 90-year-old mother quickly and decisively put that question to rest. "Of course he's against abortion," Rose Alito told the Associated Press in a telephone interview from her Hamilton, N.J., home. Her candid statement may go down in history as the most blunt and honest admission of a Supreme Court nominee's view on the hot-button issue. But ...
Sex Is Elementary: Judge Dismisses Parents' Appeal Over Survey
Post Date: 2005-11-02 22:42:10 by Dakmar
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Let the Mary Kay Letourneau jokes begin. A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that parents do not have the exclusive right to tell their children about sex and that a California elementary school did not break any laws when it asked students about their sexual thoughts. The three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling against the parents. Circuit Judge Stephen Reinhardt said "no such specific right can be found in the deep roots of the nation's history and tradition or implied in the concept of ordered liberty." For more info on the scandal, check out this audio report by AP correspondent Jan Sluizer. Click for ...
Looking for constitutional lawyer to take on the corrupt government.
Post Date: 2005-11-02 19:48:03 by A K A Stone
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Im looking to consult online with a constitutional lawyer for a lawsuit I intend to bring against a municipal court. Please let me know if you would like to be a part of this case.
Forrester hit on gun control (NJ)
Post Date: 2005-11-02 19:35:09 by bunnyrabbit
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Democratic Assemblyman Reed Gusciora yesterday charged Republican gubernatorial hopeful Doug Forrester with being "cozy" with those opposed to gun control, a claim refuted by Forrester. "The next governor of the state will have to deal with the growing influence of gangs and guns, especially in our urban areas," said Gusciora, D-Princeton Borough. "We need to know if Doug has a plan." Democrats have tried to highlight 13-year-old statements by Forrester to portray him as anti-gun-control, and Democratic gubernatorial candidate U.S. Sen. Jon Corzine has consistently scored with gun-control groups. But while he seldom mentions it, Forrester does have a ...
Gun control in legislative crosshairs (Illinois)
Post Date: 2005-11-02 19:32:40 by bunnyrabbit
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Gun control will be the big issue when legislators return for the final three days of veto session today. Gov. Rod Blagojevich spoke out against three gun control bills that he vetoed but are now scheduled for possible override votes. The battle centers on how guns are transported, tracked and traded. He recruited Illinois State Police Director Larry Trent to lobby against veto overrides. "We've got to send a strong message of our concerns for the safety of police officers across the state," Trent said. "There isn't really any middle ground on this issue. You either stand with the gun lobby, or you stand with law enforcement." Kelly Hobbs, a ...
Historic Vermont Meeting in State Capital Passes Resolution to Secede from the U.S.
Post Date: 2005-11-02 07:18:28 by Eoghan
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The members of a peaceful freedom-fighting group want no part of neo-cons running the imperialistic U.S. government. Plan to secede from the U.S. gaining momentum in the fiercely independent Green Mountain state. The neo-con band of criminals running Washington, trampling on civil rights at home and invading countries at will overseas, has led a large group of strong-minded Vermont freedom-fighters with no choice but to secede from the United States. And last Friday at the state capital building in Montpelier, a historic independence convention was held, the first of its kind in the United States since May 20, 1861, when North Carolina decided to leave the Union. A packed House ...
Alito's Judicial Record a Portrait of Conservatism and Consistency
Post Date: 2005-11-01 22:18:08 by rack42
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Although he is mild-mannered and self-effacing, Samuel A. Alito Jr. has compiled such a clear track record in 15 years on the federal appeals court that his nomination Monday to the Supreme Court sparked immediate reactions — from both fans and critics — that his presence on the high court would move it to the right. Alito has written strongly conservative decisions on reproductive rights, the role of religion in public life, federalism, defendants' rights and the environment. Those rulings have made him a darling of conservatives and precipitated an outcry from civil rights and women's organizations urging that his nomination be blocked. By nominating Alito, President Bush ...
US spy agency’s patents under security scrutiny
Post Date: 2005-11-01 18:23:30 by boonie rat
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US spy agency’s patents under security scrutiny * 17:45 27 October 2005 * http://NewScientist.com news service * Paul Marks The hyper-secretive US National Security Agency – the government’s eavesdropping arm - appears to be having its patent applications increasingly blocked by the Pentagon. And the grounds for this are for reasons of national security, reveals information obtained under a freedom of information request. Most Western governments can prevent the granting (and therefore publishing) of patents on inventions deemed to contain sensitive information of use to an enemy or terrorists. They do so by issuing a secrecy order barring publication and even discussion ...
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