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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
EXTRA*JURY WANTS TO SEE THE LAW*EXTRA
Post Date: 2005-10-21 19:33:53 by Neil McIver
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FREEDOM ABOVE FORTUNE NEWS Dear Friends: I wanted to alert you to a significant event that has manifested itself in the Irwin Schiff/Cynthia Neun/Lawrence Cohen trial currently underway in Las Vegas. In a development reminiscent of my own trial, the jury has apparently asked to have Cindy Neun's IRS code book brought in to them so that they could examine it. The judge as apparently denied this request saying that providing it to the jury would be "problematic". On the first day of the jury's deliberations in my trial, the prosecution's worst nightmare came true when the jury asked to see for themselves a year 2000 edition of the Title 26 of the Code of Federal Regulations ...
GOVERNMENT RAIDS OUTLAWS
Post Date: 2005-10-21 19:24:36 by boonie rat
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GOVERNMENT RAIDS OUTLAWS Secret Agents Attack Before Dawn Times Reporter - Ben Plagiarized Fort Myers 04/01/03 - A joint task force of more than 100 federal agents and state police raided the heavily defended bunker office of a Florida gang last Sunday morning at 4am, uncovering a stock pile of illegal law books and other legal reference media. "It's astounding," said Police Chief John Catchum at a press conference. "I've never seen so many books in my life. It was a virtual law library." Chief Catchum described the entire Outlaws Legal Service building as filled wall to wall with law books and piles of legal magazines. In several rooms officers discovered high ...
Harper's Magazine: We Now Live in a Fascist State
Post Date: 2005-10-21 09:09:27 by Grumble Jones
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The article below appears in the current issue of Harpers and was written by Lewis H. Lapham http://www.harpers.org/LewisLapham.html Knowing the source of this piece makes it all the more disturbing. It is not every day that the editor of a respected national magazine publishes an essay claiming that America is not on the road to becoming, but ALREADY IS, a fascist state.... or words to that affect. To help prepare you for what follows, here are the final sentence from this piece.... [I think we can look forward with confidence to character-building bankruptcies, picturesque bread riots, thrilling cavalcades of splendidly costumed motorcycle police.] On message By Lewis H. Lapham ...
“National Service” And Involuntary Servitude
Post Date: 2005-10-20 22:44:45 by christine
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Here in and around the Beltway, a local talk-radio host started the day with a bright idea: Let’s put welfare recipients to work. This brainstorm was inspired, as you might guess, by the news footage of rioting and looting in New Orleans. The idea of nonmilitary “national service” has a stubborn charm for many Americans who should know better. Even William Buckley has endorsed it. So do some of my liberal friends. If the government is paying people money, shouldn’t it be able to require something of them in return? Even rich people occasionally speak of “giving something back to the community.” What we are talking about here, of course, is slavery, more ...
Protecting Private Property Rights
Post Date: 2005-10-20 22:27:21 by eyeswideoopen
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This is a very important program to hear for anybody interested in protecting and preserving private property rights. Today on Chris Gerner’s program, “Amerikan Expose” on Republic Broadcasting Network, the guest was Dan Byfield with the American Land Foundation. The subject was Mr. Byfield’s fight to save private property rights from the Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO’s) who use environmental law to deprive owners of the use and value of their land. Mr. Byfield originally got involved in the issue when he was hired by a land bank cooperative that was a lending institution of and for farmers and ranchers. The concern was how environmental issues ...
Neoconservatism as a Fake Ideology, Part 2
Post Date: 2005-10-20 16:48:54 by BTP Holdings
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Neoconservatism as a Fake Ideology, Part 2 By Kevin Carson October 20, 2005 More on that noted "strict constructionist" and enemy of "legislating from the bench," Harriet Miers (from Progressive Review):RICK KLEIN, BOSTON GLOBE - Earlier this year, Supreme Court nominee Harriet E. Miers used several speeches to push for expanding President Bush's powers to protect the United States against terrorism, arguing that "a nation at war" needs a stronger executive branch, according to transcripts the White House has provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee.In her speeches to conservative groups, Miers called for extension of the Patriot Act, which expands law ...
Neoconservatism as a Fake Ideology
Post Date: 2005-10-20 16:41:20 by BTP Holdings
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Neoconservatism as a Fake Ideology By Kevin Carson October 17, 2005 It seems Harriet Miers' so-called "strict constitutionalism" doesn't bear much looking into. Apparently, it's not the federal government that's one of strictly defined and limited powers--just the legislative branch of it (via Mojo Blog):As White House chief-of-staff, [Andy Card] found the most intriguing article, he said, to be Article II, which established the presidency and the executive branch. Miers, he continued, understood Article II as well, and would defend it "when challenged by those given the power to challenge it by Article I [i.e., the Congress] and Article III [i.e., the courts]."Thus ...
THE CONSERVATIVE MANIFESTO
Post Date: 2005-10-20 01:52:29 by Uncle Bill
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The Conservative Manifesto Capitol Hill Blue By DOUG THOMPSON Oct 19, 2005, 05:58 Many plots exist around the world to overthrow The United States of America. Some ferment in the caves of Afghanistan, others in terrorist hideouts throughout the Middle East and still more in the governments of North Korea, Iran and God-knows-where-else. Yet the most dangerous threat to this country, to our very way of life, festers here at home, in the halls of Congress and the West Wing of the White House. It spills out daily in the rabid rhetoric of the extreme right wing – the conservative cabal whose goal is no less than total seizure of our government and complete domination of the lives of all ...
OK, I Just Shot My Monitor, Does Anybody Have Any Duct Tape?
Post Date: 2005-10-19 22:37:46 by Uncle Bill
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Speaker Hastert to Democratic Leaders: 'Stop the Spending Spree' 10/19/2005 4:48:00 PM To: National Desk Contact: Ron Bonjean or Lisa C. Miller, 202-225-2800, both of the Office of House Speaker Dennis Hastert WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) today released the following statement after Democratic Leaders sent a letter asking that the House cancel plans to take up a spending restraint amendment. "It's not surprising that Democratic leaders would be opposed to a spending restraint amendment. They have one strategy: to tax and spend with reckless disregard for the budget, the economy or American jobs. "Hurricanes Katrina and Rita ...
WHO WAS THE SECOND CHOICE BUSH? - Ann Coulter
Post Date: 2005-10-19 22:18:18 by Uncle Bill
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Who Was the Second Choice? Human Events by Ann Coulter Posted Oct 19, 2005 I have finally hit upon a misdeed by the Bush Administration so outrageous, so appalling, so egregious, I am calling for a bipartisan commission with subpoena power to investigate: Who told the President to nominate Harriet Miers? The commission should also be charged with getting an answer to this question: Who was his second choice? Things are so bad, the best option for Karl Rove now would be to get himself indicted. Then at least he'd have a colorable claim to having no involvement in the Miers nomination. This week's Miers update is: (1) Miers is a good bowler (New York Times, Oct. 16, 2005, front page– ...
Should Anti-Bush Journalists Be Tried as "Spies"?
Post Date: 2005-10-19 14:47:15 by NOLAJBS
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Should Anti-Bush Journalists Be Tried as "Spies"? by William Norman GriggJanuary 22, 2005 According to Washington Times editorial page editor Tony Blankley, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh should be tried for espionage. Tony Blankley, editorial page editor of the Washington Times, is a walking museum. His syndicated column regularly retails Soviet-style hymns to the majesty of the state and its Dear Leader, thoughtfully published in pedestrian English prose so as to avoid the necessity of translation.In his most recent offering, Commissar Blankley opines that investigative reporter Seymour Hersh committed "espionage" by publishing a detailed expose of the Bush ...
How To Drop A Turd In The Bushbot Babbling Hydra Kool-Aid [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2005-10-18 22:18:00 by Uncle Bill
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Bush as President: Bush Asks for $15 Billion to Fight AIDS in AfricaI agree with you! Believe that Senator Bill Frist, M.D., who has gone to Africa and has seen how devastating this disease is to so many people that have gotten AIDs in Africa through no fault of their own. This epidemic could go around the world and strike more than the gay community. 20 posted on 01/29/2003 8:10 AM PST by PhiKapMom(Bush/Cheney 2004)SOURCE Clinton as President: Clinton Wants $175 Million for AIDS Programs"Can someone tell me how putting more money into prevention is going to help? It is actually quite simple -- safe sex and don't share needles. Probably the most basic answer is "Just ...
Bush's Veil Over History (KITTY KELLEY)
Post Date: 2005-10-18 22:07:13 by robin
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October 10, 2005 Bush's Veil Over History By KITTY KELLEY Washington SECRECY has been perhaps the most consistent trait of the George W. Bush presidency. Whether it involves refusing to provide the names of oil executives who advised Vice President Dick Cheney on energy policy, prohibiting photographs of flag-draped coffins returning from Iraq, or forbidding the release of files pertaining to Chief Justice John Roberts's tenure in the Justice Department, President Bush seems determined to control what the public is permitted to know. And he has been spectacularly effective, making Richard Nixon look almost transparent. But perhaps the most egregious example occurred on Nov. 1, 2001, when ...
RFID for postal, courier and high volume light logistics
Post Date: 2005-10-18 19:14:39 by boonie rat
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RFID for postal, courier and high volume light logistics RFID is an idea whose time has come in postal, courier and high volume light logistics. IDTechEx estimate that the global market for RFID systems, including tags, will reach $US 3 billion in 2016. It could be much bigger if current efforts to tag individual items gain widespread acceptance. In due course, over one trillion postal items will be tagged yearly, making this the second largest application of RFID in the world after the retail supply chain. In the past, RFID has been used for little more than the evaluation of postal performance using tags in a small percentage of letters and the tracking of a small number of conveyances ...
Secret Code in Color Printers Lets Government Track You
Post Date: 2005-10-18 18:45:48 by Eoghan
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San Francisco – A research team led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recently broke the code behind tiny tracking dots that some color laser printers secretly hide in every document. The U.S. Secret Service admitted that the tracking information is part of a deal struck with selected color laser printer manufacturers, ostensibly to identify counterfeiters. However, the nature of the private information encoded in each document was not previously known. "We've found that the dots from at least one line of printers encode the date and time your document was printed, as well as the serial number of the printer," said EFF Staff Technologist Seth David Schoen. You ...
Compare & Contrast: The U.S. Constitution vs. The U.S. Constitution
Post Date: 2005-10-17 14:10:23 by NOLAJBS
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Below is the "unofficial" correct version of the U.S. Constitution with annotations in brackets for references. | Constitution for the United States of America | We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Article. I. [Section 1.] All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. [Section 2.] The ...
Inmate Must Be Allowed To Have Abortion, Supreme Court Rules
Post Date: 2005-10-17 11:44:04 by Brian S
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that the state of Missouri must allow a prison inmate to have an abortion. Over the weekend, the state won a temporary stay, after a federal judge ruled that the state had to provide transportation to take the inmate to the abortion clinic. But the justices lifted that stay Monday, without comment. Missouri has a state law that bans the spending of taxpayer dollars to facilitate an abortion. Justice Clarence Thomas, acting alone, granted a stay late Friday night. But the full Supreme Court lifted that without comment Monday. Gov. Matt Blunt said the original decision "offends Missouri values." The woman, described as being in her 20s, says ...
Alaska anti-gun-control law goes into effect Wednesday
Post Date: 2005-10-17 09:39:14 by NOLAJBS
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JUNEAU, Alaska — Starting Wednesday, a new anti-gun-control law in Alaska will allow handgun owners to carry concealed weapons without a permit in the seven Alaska cities where permits are now required. Gun owners will be allowed to keep their firearms in their vehicle, even if the car is parked on private property where the owner has a no-gun policy. And, some police chiefs say, local ordinances that ban guns from public buildings such as city halls will no longer be enforceable. Alaska's new law forbids municipalities from passing gun laws that are more restrictive than state law. The National Rifle Association, which helped Republican state Rep. Mike Chenault draft the new law, ...
DHS and AOL: An Unholy Alliance
Post Date: 2005-10-17 07:08:16 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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DHS and AOL: An Unholy Alliance October 3, 2005 by Martin McKinney The Financial Reporter (U.K.) Washington- The American-based internet giant, AOL, wholly-owned by Time-Warner, has formed a working partnership with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to permit unlimited surveillance of the millions of AOL online members, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Commerce. “AOL works ‘closely with the DHS’ to supply information on any AOL customer and allows agents from these entities ‘free and unfettered’ access to AOL Hq at Dulles, VA for the purpose of ‘watching over and keeping surveillance ’ on the millions of AOL ...
THE BUSH SPINNERS - TALKING POINTS
Post Date: 2005-10-17 02:06:37 by Uncle Bill
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Before a January, 2002, appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press," Treasury Department public relations chief Michele Davis sent Secretary O'Neill a 3-page memo explaining how he should deal with host Tim Russert. The memo, which coaches O'Neill on how to avoid the substance of Russert's questions, is a classic of political spin. O'Neill was told to answer the first question by praising the President's economic stimulus proposals, "no matter the question." "You need to interject the President's message," Davis coached O'Neill, "even if the question has nothing to do with that."
China - Sinopec - Harriet Miers - Locke Liddell & Sapp - Condoleezza Rice - Operation Sidewinder
Post Date: 2005-10-16 23:31:54 by Uncle Bill
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A Hong Kong newspaper reported earlier that Sinopec was in talks with Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. and its controlling shareholder, Li Ka-shing, to acquire all or part of their stake in Husky. Hutchison has a 34.7% stake in Husky, while Li Ka-shing and his family trust own 36.3%. Harriet Miers Biography - Co-Managing Partner at Locke Liddell & Sapp, LLP from 1998-2000. Locke Liddell & Sapp, LLP - REPRESENTATIVE LOCKE LIDDELL ENERGY INDUSTRY CLIENTS - SINOPEC Condoleezza Rice and the Stanford Spy Ring Operation Sidewinder"3,500 Chinese spy companies had been identified operating in Canada and the United States." While America Sleeps Li Ka- shing's Growing Empire ...
Karl Rove's Consigliere
Post Date: 2005-10-16 21:11:45 by Uncle Bill
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Karl Rove's Consigliere Newsweek By Michael Isikoff October 24, 2005 Oct. 24, 2005 issue - When Karl Rove emerged after four grueling hours before a federal grand jury in Washington last Friday, his lawyer Robert Luskin made one more attempt to figure out just where his client stood. He approached special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald outside the hearing room and asked if Rove's fortunes had changed in the two-year-old inquiry of who leaked the name of CIA agent Valerie Plame. But Fitzgerald, ever tight-lipped, wasn't giving anything up. He curtly told the lawyer that "no decisions" had been made, Luskin says. That left Luskin, the brainy battle-tested Washington litigator ...
The prison industry in the United States: big business or a new form of slavery?
Post Date: 2005-10-16 20:11:48 by Red Jones
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The prison industry in the United States: big business or a new form of slavery? BY VICKY PELAEZ (Taken from El Diario-La Prensa, New York) HUMAN rights organizations, as well as political and social ones, are condemning what they are calling a new form of inhumane exploitation in the United States, where they say a prison population of up to 2 million – mostly Black and Hispanic – are working for various industries for a pittance. For the tycoons who have invested in the prison industry, it has been like finding a pot of gold. They don’t have to worry about strikes or paying unemployment insurance, vacations or comp time. All of their workers are full-time, and never ...
20-Person Team To Sell Re-Packaged Miers
Post Date: 2005-10-16 17:26:06 by Uncle Bill
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Why They Can't Hit The Right Note With even Laura off-key on Miers, Bush plans to change the message—again Time By Mike Allen October 16, 2005 Get ready for a whole new Harriet. After a disastrous two weeks, White House officials say they hope to relaunch the nomination of Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court by moving from what they call a "biographical phase" to an "accomplishment phase." In other words, stop debating her religion and personality and start focusing on her resume as a pioneering female lawyer of the Southwest. "We got a little wrapped around the axle," an exhausted White House official said. "As the focus becomes less on who she's ...
The myth of the will of the people
Post Date: 2005-10-16 07:20:16 by Kamala
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The myth of the will of the people By Eavan Callaghan Online Journal Contributing Writer October 6, 2005— I'm so tired of hearing about the will of the people. You can't put the discrimination of a minority up to a vote of the majority. That's fundamentally flawed. I know the majority of people are not gay. I know the majority of the people probably even think that being gay is wrong. What the majority of the people want is not the point. Yet the good Reverend Louis P. Sheldon, the right-wing fundamentalist Christian zealot, uses just such a flawed argument. In comments regarding Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's veto of AB 849, the bill passed by the California Legislature that ...
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