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Bill "Shut Up" O'Reilly Takes on Bloggers
Post Date: 2005-10-05 05:56:47 by Kamala
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Bill "Shut Up" O'Reilly Takes on Bloggers October 4th, 2005 I'm not in the habit of tuning in Bill O'Reilly or Fox News. However, I may do so tonight because O'Reilly promises to go after "dangerous" bloggers. "Personal attacks lodged through the internet! How are so-called 'Web logs' being used as ideological weapons? And who's behind the smear campaigns? We'll have a No Spin look at a dangerous new weapon in the culture wars!" declares a Fox News "No Spin Zone" program note. Considering what the Fox News loud-mouth did to Florida professor Sami al-Arian, it is not out of the realm of possibility a blogger or two will be grilled mercilessly after ...
Bush Prods Congress On Patriot Act [pass expiring provisions to help prevent future terrorist attacks]
Post Date: 2005-10-04 22:13:19 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- President Bush called on Congress Tuesday to pass expiring provisions of the Patriot Act to help prevent future terrorist attack. Bush did no specify which provisions, but among them is the ability to establish taps on multiple telephones without needing court approval for each and every telephone of a suspect. That provision and others have come in for criticism from civil liberty groups. "We ... have got to continue to make sure we meet our obligations to prevent further terrorist attack," Bush said. "One of the most important effective tools for safeguarding our country is the Patriot Act. "The Patriot Act is getting results; it's a ...
High court input eyed in Patriot Act case
Post Date: 2005-10-04 15:28:21 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court was asked Monday to let libraries speak out about FBI demands for their records in a case involving the Patriot Act anti-terrorism law. The American Civil Liberties Union filed the emergency appeal, on behalf of an anonymous client, but the paperwork is censored and gives few details. The ACLU has argued that a gag order prevents its client, apparently librarians in Connecticut, from participating in a debate over whether Congress should reauthorize the Patriot Act. A federal judge said that the gag order had "the practical effect of silencing individuals with a constitutionally protected interest in speech and whose voices are particularly important ...
Five US Troops Killed In Western Iraq During Assault On Insurgents
Post Date: 2005-10-04 09:47:28 by Brian S
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BAGHDAD (AFX) - Five US troops were killed in western Iraq yesterday, the US military said, as coalition forces pushed an assault in the rebel heartland close to the Syrian border. A marine died in a bomb attack in Karabilah during Operation "Iron Fist", one of two large-scale anti-insurgency sweeps in the area, a statement said today. Three other soldiers assigned to the marines were killed in another bomb blast in Haqlaniyah, also in western Iraq, it added, without providing further details. A fifth soldier died of gunshots wounds near Taqaddum, the military said, giving no details, but adding that the incident was under investigation. The latest deaths bring to 1,931 the ...
CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT IS DEAD
Post Date: 2005-10-04 02:53:42 by Uncle Bill
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Conservative Movement Is Dead Worldnetdaily By Joseph Farah October 4, 2005 I hereby officially pronounce the conservative movement dead. May it rest in peace. It was killed by its faith in men, not principles – men like George W. Bush. The appointments of John Roberts as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and Harriet Miers as associate justice serve as the epitaphs for the political movement. But even before these betrayals, conservatism was on life support. It could not have survived the irresponsible spending by the Republican Congress, approved by the president during the last five years. The conservative movement, in the best of times, represented a defensive effort ...
Blogs test campaign freedoms
Post Date: 2005-10-03 18:45:47 by Zipporah
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Serious debate mixes with gossip, name-callingWASHINGTON - If people like their Cincinnati politics polite, they shouldn't go near the Web.In the recent 2nd Congressional District election and now the Cincinnati mayor's race, bloggers - authors of Web logs - have posted pictures of candidates' family members, set up mocking Web sites bearing candidates' names and compared candidates to Adolf Hitler.Some have even written that candidates are gay or suggested that their campaign staff have engaged in kinky sex.As blogs become a more prominent player in politics, the federal government is considering whether to step in and regulate - for the first time - online political speech.The Federal ...
Bush chooses White House counsel Harriet Miers for Supreme Court
Post Date: 2005-10-03 07:46:33 by secret_squirrel
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Bush chooses White House counsel Harriet Miers for Supreme Court THE ASSOCIATED PRESS October 3, 2005, 7:25 AM EDT WASHINGTON -- President Bush has chosen Harriet Miers, White House counsel and a loyal member of the president's inner circle, to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court, a senior administration official said Monday. If confirmed by the Republican-controlled Senate, Miers, 60, would join Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as the second woman on the nation's highest court. Miers, who has never been a judge, was the first woman to serve as president of the Texas State Bar and the Dallas Bar Association. Without a judicial record, it's ...
Occupied New Orleans and Homegrown Resistance
Post Date: 2005-10-02 15:55:16 by Zipporah
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The appearance of fully-armed mercenaries on the streets of New Orleans tells us that the city is currently under occupation. Whenever foreign troops are deployed within an urban area it can only mean one thing; the loss of sovereignty. It’s no different here. Blackwater mercenaries are part of a privately owned army that has seized control of the streets from their rightful owners, the people of New Orleans. They are an integral part of a much broader plan to militarize the nation and turn America into a garrison-state.Blackwater employees may work for the United States government, but, in fact, they represent the exclusive interests of an elite cadre of corporate globalists who are ...
Source to Stephanopoulos: President Bush Directly Involved In Leak Scandal
Post Date: 2005-10-02 15:35:36 by aristeides
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Source to Stephanopoulos: President Bush Directly Involved In Leak Scandal Near the end of a round table discussion on ABC’s This Week, George Stephanopoulos dropped this bomb: Definitely a political problem but I wonder, George Will, do you think it’s a manageable one for the White House especially if we don’t know whether Fitzgerald is going to write a report or have indictments but if he is able to show as a source close to this told me this week, that President Bush and Vice President Cheney were actually involved in some of these discussions. This would explain why Bush spent more than an hour answering questions from special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. It would ...
Frist Sold Stock During 'Blackout' Period
Post Date: 2005-10-02 12:03:18 by aristeides
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Frist Sold Stock During 'Blackout' Period By RICHARD POWELSON Oct 2, 2005, 06:01 Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's HCA stock was sold almost entirely during a blackout period when the hospital company barred its executives from buying or selling because they were hearing about quarterly earnings. HCA's second-quarter blackout for insider stock trading was June 15 to July 27, HCA spokesman Jeff Prescott said in an interview. Frist's blind trust sold his stock from June 13 to July 1, Senate records show. But he has said he did not fix a sales date in his June 13 letter to the trustee of the trust ordering the sale. The letter has not been made public. Frist legally could sell stock at ...
FBI admits to wiretapping wrong numbers
Post Date: 2005-10-02 10:14:13 by Zipporah
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Patriot Act critics irked by mistakes made during terrorism investigationsWASHINGTON - The FBI says it sometimes gets the wrong number when it intercepts conversations in terrorism investigations, an admission critics say underscores a need to revise wiretap provisions in the Patriot Act.The FBI would not say how often these mistakes happen. And, though any incriminating evidence mistakenly collected is not legally admissible in a criminal case, there is no way of knowing whether it is used to begin an investigation.Parts of the Patriot Act, including a section on “roving wiretaps,” expire in December. Such wiretaps allow the FBI to get permission from a secret federal court to ...
ABOLISHING THE USA
Post Date: 2005-10-01 18:23:08 by Uncle Bill
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Abolishing the USA The New American by William F. Jasper October 3, 2005 Issue The United States of America is being abolished. Piecemeal. Before our very eyes. By our own elected officials — under the guidance and direction of unelected elites. Incredible? Certainly. But, unfortunately, true nonetheless. For decades, federal officials have ignored the pleas of American citizens to secure our borders against an immense, ongoing migration invasion that includes not only millions of “common variety” illegal aliens, but also drug traffickers, terrorists, and other violent criminals. Now, under the pretense of providing security, the Bush administration is adopting an ...
Is this why we are where we are today?
Post Date: 2005-10-01 16:32:07 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Is this why we are where we are today? M.E.R. Magazine's Brian Quig Columns from 1991 by Brian Quig Brian Quig wrote in 1991: 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 presidency if he accepted Bush on the ticket. Otherwise Rockefeller would swing the election to Carter." Cleon Skousen spoke with Reagan at the ...
Posse Comitatus: Remembering Why
Post Date: 2005-10-01 09:46:29 by robin
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October 1, 2005 Posse Comitatus: Remembering Why by Alan Bock President Bush, showing in full bloom the instincts that make it clear that whatever he is politically he is not a conservative of the traditional limited-government or Constitutionalist variety, has lofted a trial balloon to promote the idea of having the military play a more extensive, earlier and perhaps even primary role in handling future disasters. The fact that he has mentioned it more than once, and that press secretary Scott McClellan has discussed both that idea and the idea of bypassing governors when disaster strikes, suggests that the notion is not just something that popped into his head on the spur of the ...
FCC Releases Orders for Internet Backdoor Wiretap Access
Post Date: 2005-10-01 01:28:15 by robin
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FCC Releases Orders for Internet Backdoor Wiretap Access by Brendan Coyne (bio) Sep 29 - Quietly last week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a 59-page document outlining new rules forcing broadband internet and voice-over-IP (VoIP) phone service providers to open up their systems to federal, state and local law enforcement officials. In releasing the rules, the FCC opened up a 30-day public comment period. The regulations, which are planned for implementation in 2007, were decided upon in the beginning of August and made public Friday without a news release or other announcement. Opponents of the proposed rules argue that the "backdoor" requirements pose ...
Chirac tweaks his Citroen, brings biofuel to Elysee
Post Date: 2005-09-30 21:47:05 by Dakmar
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PARIS (Reuters) - French President Jacques Chirac has joined the country's push to boost biofuel use -- converting his own luxury Citroen C6 saloon and many of his officials' cars to run on cleaner-burning biodiesel. Fuel pumps at his Elysee palace in central Paris have been modified to provide the alternative fuel. "The president's car runs with biodiesel made from rapeseed, as do half the Elysee cars," a spokeswoman said on Friday. France, Europe's biggest agricultural producer, has announced plans to become Europe's leading biofuel maker by 2010, when it wants green fuels to fill seven percent of total consumption. France produces both biodiesel, made from mostly rapeseed, ...
Weldon accuses Bush administration of 9/11 coverup
Post Date: 2005-09-30 17:05:32 by aristeides
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Weldon accuses Bush administration of 9/11 coverup by topdog08 [Subscribe] Fri Sep 30th, 2005 at 13:07:52 PDT No joke. Conservative Republican Congressman Curt Weldon: So, what I've had to do is to fight with both of them, both the 9-11 Commission and the [Bush] administration, who I think neither of whom wants this information to be put out to the American people. Now, what bothers me is that the bulk of the information in Able Danger acquired was open-source information; it wasn't classified. To deny these military officers, who are very dedicated, loyal Americans, to tell their story not only flies in the face of everything this country stands for, but it is also a personal attack ...
WAYNE MADSEN: PLAMEGATE KABUKI DANCE (MY TITLE)
Post Date: 2005-09-30 14:25:26 by aristeides
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WAYNE MADSEN REPORT September 30, 2005 -- The Bush spinmeisters' Kabuki dance with Patrick Fitzgerald. There is an interesting stylized dance taking place between the White House and Patrick Fitzgerald, the Special Prosecutor in the CIA leak case. For weeks, there have been rumors inside the Beltway that something big would be announced about the case during the last weeks of September. The silence and lack of substantial leaks were indications that a major turn of events would soon occur. Yesterday afternoon, the White House quickly swore in John G. Roberts as Chief Justice, just hours after his Senate confirmation. Rather than wait for the next morning and thus get two days of puff ball ...
"An act of the Congress of the United States ... which assumes powers ... not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void and of no force." - Thomas Jefferson
Post Date: 2005-09-30 02:34:44 by Uncle Bill
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"An act of the Congress of the United States ... which assumes powers ... not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void and of no force."Thomas Jefferson: Draft Kentucky Resolutions, 1798. ME 17:383.
FRANKLIN DELANO BUSH
Post Date: 2005-09-29 22:14:28 by Uncle Bill
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Franklin Delano Bush Cato Institute by David Boaz September 29, 2005 David Boaz is executive vice president of the Cato Institute and coeditor of the Cato Handbook on Policy. It wasn’t a fireside chat on the radio. No, it was different. President Bush stood in front of a church and addressed the nation by television. But otherwise, we’re back in the days of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his big-spending, big-government New Deal. Except the New New Deal costs a lot more. Franklin Delano Bush promised a gigantic federal relief effort--one that would go far beyond the traditional idea of disaster relief. He didn’t just promise to clean up debris, or provide ...
FBI to get veto power over PC software?
Post Date: 2005-09-29 21:25:36 by Brian S
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September 27, 2005 11:37 AM PDT The Federal Communications Commission thinks you have the right to use software on your computer only if the FBI approves. No, really. In an obscure "policy" document released around 9 p.m. ET last Friday, the FCC announced this remarkable decision. According to the three-page document, to preserve the openness that characterizes today's Internet, "consumers are entitled to run applications and use services of their choice, subject to the needs of law enforcement." Read the last seven words again. The FCC didn't offer much in the way of clarification. But the clearest reading of the pronouncement is that some unelected bureaucrats at the ...
New York Times reporter Judith Miller released from jail
Post Date: 2005-09-29 19:42:14 by aristeides
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New York Times reporter Judith Miller released from jail BY JOHN SHIFFMAN AND STEVE GOLDSTEIN Knight Ridder Newspapers WASHINGTON - (KRT) - Judith Miller, The New York Times reporter who has been jailed since July 6 for refusing to identify a source, has been released, The Philadelphia Inquirer has learned. Miller left an Alexandria, Va. jail at 3:55 p.m., a jail official said. She was released after she had a telephone conversation with the Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, sources said. In that conversation, Libby reaffirmed that he had released Miller from a promise of confidentiality more than a year ago, sources said. The special prosecutor in the ...
Biometrics and Children
Post Date: 2005-09-29 18:32:07 by eyeswideoopen
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I was just listening to the radio - RBNLive, Chris Gerner's program: Amerikan Expose [ http://www.rbnlive.com/ ]. One of the callers mentioned a pilot project called 'Amber View' that is being tested in West Virginia. The concept of the program as sold to the parents was the ability to find their child quickly if he/she gets snatched by the boogie man. It turns out the program is actually for biometric ID's. Not so obviously, the only way that these ID's could be used to find kidnapped children quickly is if there are cameras everywhere that are linked into the computer system with the child's metrics. That means there will need to be cameras covering every street, bus station, gas ...
The Assault on Self-Defense!
Post Date: 2005-09-29 00:44:10 by Coral Snake
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The Assault on Self-Defense! By Doug Hagin (09/28/05) 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 ...
Compass' Departure as New Orleans Chief 'Right, But Not Enough,' Says Second Amendment Foundation
Post Date: 2005-09-29 00:37:10 by Coral Snake
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Compass' Departure as New Orleans Chief 'Right, But Not Enough,' Says Second Amendment Foundation 9/28/2005 2:49:00 PM To: National and State Desk Contact: Alan Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation, 425-454-7012 BELLEVUE, Wash., Sept. 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The abrupt retirement announcement Tuesday by New Orleans Police Superintendent Eddie Compass was "the right thing to do, but not enough," said Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) founder Alan M. Gottlieb. "While the departure of Chief Compass may begin a healing process that needs to occur between the police and law-abiding gun owners whose firearms were arbitrarily seized in the days after Hurricane ...
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