tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-165973762011-04-21T17:50:37.471-04:00News that you should stay up on when you don't feel like listening to that crap on TV. Real news, not that watered down and "controlled stuff. Now...you can either take the blue pill or the red one. The choice is yours.Sparklehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07514003548069613950noreply@blogger.comBlogger541100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16597376.post-1137318749223979502006-01-15T04:01:00.000-05:002006-01-15T04:52:29.280-05:00

Alito Memo in '84 Favored Immunity for Top Officials

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Food for thought: In his last article for The New York Times, journalist David Rosenbaum reported that Samuel Alito had written a memo in 1984, advising then-President Reagan that it would be legally sound for him to order wiretaps without a warrant. This news was, of course, especially pertinent in light of President Bush’s wiretapping habit.Ironically Rosenbaum was mugged to death two weeks

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by Ali Fadhil, The GuardianExcerpt: "They then took me downstairs and made me sit in the living room while they smashed every piece of furniture we have. There were about 20 soldiers inside the house and several others on guard on the roof."'Sorry, it was the wrong address' [AUDIO FILE][full story]

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Excerpt: According to a declassified document, the National Security Agency's vast data-mining activities began shortly after Bush was sworn in as president, and the document contradicts his assertion that the 9/11 attacks prompted him to take the unprecedented step of signing a secret executive order authorizing the NSA to monitor a select number of American citizens thought to have ties to

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Police Make Arrest in Slaying of ReporterThursday, January 12, 2006WASHINGTON — A suspect in the beating death of New York Times reporter David Rosenbaum turned himself in to police Thursday night after TV stations broadcast surveillance images showing his face.Michael Hamlin, 23, of Washington, saw one of the broadcasts and went to the 7th District police station "inquiring why his face was on

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Appeals Court Upholds 55 Year Mandatory SentenceThe Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld the gun-nutty 55 year mandatory sentence of 27 year old Weldon Angelos, who had no prior felony convictions.Angelos was in possession of a gun, that he neither brandished, used nor displayed, when he conducted three marijuana sales. The total amount of pot involved was 24 ounces."Four former U.S.

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Impeach Blair on Iraq, says general · PM misled public, says UN Bosnia commander · Invasion 'a blunder of enormous significance' A former general has called for impeachment proceedings against Tony Blair, accusing the prime minister of misleading parliament and the public over the invasion of Iraq.General Sir Michael Rose, commander of UN forces in Bosnia in 1994, writes in today's Guardian: "The

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It's illegal to annoyA new federal law states that when you annoy someone on the Internet, you must disclose your identity. Here's the relevant language...."Whoever...utilizes any device or software that can be used to originate telecommunications or other types of communications that are transmitted, in whole or in part, by the Internet... without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy

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Silence Is ComplicityIt's a good thing for MoveOn.org that George W. Bush was reelected. If he hadn't been, the liberal troupe would have nothing to contest. Even if the bloody occupation had continued under a John Kerry presidency (it most certainly would have), the cowering office-chair activists would have ducked behind their computer screens awaiting the return of another brutal Republican

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I jacked this piece from another blog. I liked the way the writer hooked this up. You can go check out the blog it came from by clicking on the title of this entry. Very interesting Blog.surrogate: Okay. We have popcorn, we have soda, the digi-corder is rolling. Let's continue this. You were trying to explain to me how the terrorists are afraid of the West, and that's what provokes the attacks on

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Funny they SAY there are four documents, but in the article there are only TWO printed. Now what's THAT about? Here's the article....In this week's Village, we exclusively publish British Foreign Office documents which reveal American and British complicity in torture. In the magazine, two of the documents are published, here are all four of them.CONFIDENTIALLetter #1ConfidentialFM TashkentTO FCO

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Homeland Security opening private mailRetired professor confused, angered when letter from abroad is openedWASHINGTON - In the 50 years that Grant Goodman has known and corresponded with a colleague in the Philippines he never had any reason to suspect that their friendship was anything but spectacularly ordinary. But now he believes that the relationship has somehow sparked the interest of the

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Speaking Truth To Power A Time to Break Silence By Rev. Martin Luther KingBy 1967, King had become the country's most prominent opponent of theVietnam War, and a staunch critic of overall U.S. foreign policy, which hedeemed militaristic. In his "Beyond Vietnam" speech delivered at New York'sRiverside Church on April 4, 1967 -- a year to the day before he was murdered --King called the United

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A U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter is shown in a file photo over Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan.Five U.S. Marines also slain over weekend, military saysSunday, January 8, 2006BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Twelve Americans were killed when a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Iraq early Sunday, the military said.The helicopter, which was carrying a crew of four and eight passengers, was flying

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Cheney's Office Is A Focus in Leak CaseSources Cite Role Of Feud With CIABy Jim VandeHei and Walter PincusWashington Post Staff WritersTuesday, October 18, 2005; A01As the investigation into the leak of a CIA agent's name hurtles to an apparent conclusion, special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald has zeroed in on the role of Vice President Cheney's office, according to lawyers familiar with the

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Storm Expected To Be Hurricane When It Nears U.S. POSTED: 8:25 am EDT October 16, 2005UPDATED: 11:26 pm EDT October 16, 2005GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands -- A tropical depression in the Caribbean Sunday is expected to strengthen into Hurricane Wilma and move toward Florida this week, according to Local 6 News meteorologist Michele Cimino."Current movement puts the system over the western edge of

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109th CONGRESS1st SessionH. R. 581To maintain the free flow of information to the public by providing conditions for the federally compelled disclosure of information by certain persons connected with the news media.A BILLTo maintain the free flow of information to the public by providing conditions for the federally compelled disclosure of information by certain persons connected with the news

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Top US Republicans are reaching out into to the world of high technology to tame the conservative backlash against Harriet Miers, Supreme Court nominee.Within minutes of the nomination of Ms Miers last week, conservative blogs exploded with outrage, providing the first sign of serious conservative discontent over the choice Ms Miers.Now the White House is trying to quell the revolt of the blogs:

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by Anthony Wadehttp://www.opednews.comOctober 15, 2005Beware America, there is something brewing on the horizon. The storm clouds are gathering. For anyone who has closely followed this administration and the way that they try to cow the masses to avoid bad publicity, the upcoming weeks are fraught with danger. As the Plamegate case starts to wind up, rest assured the storm of grand distraction

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. . . RANThe News Egyptians voted for president on Wednesday. It was their first presidential election to feature a choice of candidates: Hosni Mubarak.Behind the News The ballot did, in fact, include more candidates, in particular Ayman Mour of the Tomorrow Party and Noaman Gomaa of the Wafd Party. But independent election monitors were barred, so Mr. Mubarak's National Democratic Party

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There are three kinds of lies, Mark Twain once said: Lies, damn lies and statistics. And George W. Bush is three kinds of a liar: A liar, a damned liar and a statistically-proven liar.Bush stood in front of reporters in Mississippi Monday and lied outright when he claimed he did not know embattled FEMA director Mike Brown had thrown in the towel and resigned. In fact, Bush gave Brown the towel

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Drowning New Orleans - Scientific American, 2001Gone With The Water - National Geographic, 2004

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Earwitness Tells ABC News Levee Was Blown Locals, Officials Think Levee Was Intentionally BlownLevee 'Explosives Residue' Story Remains UnconfirmedNew Orleans - Was 17th Street Levee Bombed?

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FEMA FIASCODuct Tape Follies - Part 2New FEMA Boss Is The Infamous 'Duct Tape Man'!!FEMA Chief Brown Resigns Mike Brown Advises 'Take The Scenic Route In Life'FEMA's Brown Paid Millions In False Claims To Help BushFEMA Chief Brown Waited Until After Storm Hit FEMA's Brown Blasted While Dubya Still Refuses Foreign AidFEMA Directorship Is A Political Patronage PositionIt Wasn't Katrina - It Was The

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ON New Year's Eve 1999, Fred Siegel writes in "The Prince of the City," his new book about Rudolph W. Giuliani's New York, authorities feared that terrorists would seize on Y2K computer glitches to strike in Times Square. In response, the National Guard was secretly mobilized in Brooklyn "as part of an emergency plan for evacuating Manhattan." As midnight came and went, the computers hummed on,

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FEMA won't accept Amtrak's help in evacuationshttp://news.ft.com/cms/s/84aa35cc-1da8-11da-b40b-00000e..FEMA turns away experienced firefightershttp://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/5/105538/7048FEMA turns back Wal-Mart supply truckshttp://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/national/nationalspec..FEMA prevents Coast Guard from delivering diesel fuelhttp://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/national/

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We go to Gonzales - between Baton Rouge and New Orleans - where a shelter has been set up for evacuees. One New Orleans evacuee compares the shelter to jail and says, "It ain't our fault that the hurricane came and we had to come here. Like we had to end up in a place that we got to be told what to do." [includes rush transcript]L.C.- evacuee from New Orleans speaking in the Lamar Dixon center in

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William S. Martin and Auguste are blogging about Jabbor Gibson, the 18-year-old who saved 100 strangers from rising waters in New Orleans by commandeering an abandoned bus and driving to the Astrodome.William writes:Rather than die on the streets of New Orleans, a young guy named Jabbor Gibson grabbed on an abandoned bus and drove 7 hours straight to Houston, rescuing complete strangers,

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It's curved... it's not straight! "The proposed memorial for one of the 9/11 flights is shaped like, brace yourself: a crescent.... A CRESCENT!" This is one of those things that makes the big bad right wing begin to look not so big, not so bad. It's like watching a monster movie and having the monster that terrorized the city do a little softshoe and belt out I Love a Parade. It's not scary so

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Late into the third night of the horrifying television coverage, it hit Frances White."Wait a minute," she said, staring at the screen. "Something is wrong. Why are we calling them 'refugees'?"For three days, she had watched the images of Hurricane Katrina. People stranded on rooftops screamed with outstretched arms. Thousands of ravaged adults and frightened children packed into the Louisiana

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WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI agents frequently violate the bureau's rules for handling confidential informants, instructions that were rewritten following FBI abuses in the 1990s, the Justice Department's internal watchdog said Monday. A review of 120 confidential informant files from FBI offices around the nation found violations in 104 cases, or 87%, Inspector General Glenn A. Fine said in a 301-page,

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SACRAMENTO -- The California State Senate voted today to allow homosexuals to marry, becoming the first legislative body in the United States to embrace the idea and setting off a frantic scramble for three votes in the Assembly that could propel the measure toward becoming law.The Senate approved the Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection Act — which would make marriage a civil contract

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The UK's health protection regulator has pointed the finger at imported food as the potential source of a deadly E. coli superbug, which has already killed 83 people in the country.The report serves as another warning to consumers about the safety of their foods. European consumers have become increasing concerned about food safety, mainly due to the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) scare

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WARWICK, England -- Strains of E. coli bacteria that are resistant to most types of antibiotics and may be spread in food are increasing rapidly in England, the government's health agency said Monday. The Health Protection Agency called for more research, saying there is no reliable estimate of the number of cases involved and it is not certain how the bug is transmitted. E. coli are very common

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BUXTON, N.C. -- As Tropical Storm Ophelia continues to spin off the Carolina coast, North Carolina has mobilized supplies and manpower to move in if the storm hits the state.A hurricane warning was issued Monday night for the Carolina coast from Cape Lookout to the South Santee River in South Carolina.The National Weather Service has also extended a tropical storm warning from Cape Lookout north

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The president responds to criticism that his administration was slow in responding to the devastating storm.(September 12)Hold your nose as you listen to the words coming out of his mouth. This man is so full of shit his breath HAS to stink!

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In this photo provided by FEMA, U.S. Fire Administrator R. David Paulison, right, speaks to firefighters while FEMA director Michael D. Brown listens during a ceremony honoring firefighters on National Stand Down Day for Firefighter Safety and Health at Loudoun County Fire Rescue Ashburn, Va. , on June 21, 2005. Brown resigned Monday, Sept. 12, 2005, three days after losing his onsite command of

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Some people have referred to it as the "secret government" of the United States. It is not an elected body, it does not involve itself in public disclosures, and it even has a quasi-secret budget in the billions of dollars. This government organization has more power than the President of the United States or the Congress, it has the power to suspend laws, move entire populations, arrest and

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The things you're about to read are in no way funny....in fact it's really quite sad when you think about it, and it doesn't make the people who made these statements look very smart at all. No wonder America is in so much trouble, these are the people that run our country. I hope all the people who actually voted for Bush are happy with their decision.1) "I don't think anybody anticipated the

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When you hear the voice of correspondent Brett Mortel describe what he saw going on in the city of New Orleans, you'll probably ask yourself two questions...How?....Why? And though you might have some idea what the answer to those questions are, you try to convince yourself that this is America and maybe just maybe if somebody pinches you you can wake up from the nightmare. For some of us

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The media reported several stories, but no story is told better than from those who actually experienced and lived through those grim days right after Katrina hit. Listen as evacuee Brian Blatcher describes what he saw and experienced in his own words. Then wonder as I did, if things would have turned out the same way if Katrina had hit your city.Sept. 2: Evacuee Brian Blatcher and AP

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Why we couldn’t save the people of New OrleansBubbling up from the flood that destroyed New Orleans are images, beamed around the world, of America's original and continuing sin: the shabby, contemptuous treatment this country metes out, decade after decade, to poor people in general and the descendants of African slaves in particular. The world sees New Orleans burning and dying today, but the

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As Hurricane Katrina was pounding the Gulf Coast, and the subsequent break in the levee systems destroyed New Orleans, cabinet officials appeared to do very little -- too little, in fact.Our Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was seen shoe-shopping (expensive ones), playing tennis and catching a show in New York. Vice President Dick Cheney remained in Wyoming on vacation. President Bush

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A lawyer with the Texas secretary of state was fired after she spoke to a reporter about presidential adviser Karl Rove's eligibility to vote in the state.So much for freedom of speech!

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On September 4, six days after Katrina hit, I saw the first glimmer of hope. "The people of New Orleans will not go quietly into the night, scattering across this country to become homeless in countless other cities while federal relief funds are funnelled into rebuilding casinos, hotels, chemical plants. We will not stand idly by while this disaster is used as an opportunity to replace our homes

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Watch Vice President Dick Cheney as a passer by tells him to go fu@k himself twice as he was being interviewed on CNN.

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NAACP National Command Center rolls out extensive hurricane relief plan...."The NAACP announced today that Adora Obi Nweze will serve as the NAACP National Disaster Relief Director to manage the extensive disaster relief plan in coordination with all 38 NAACP State Conferences, command and distribution centers, disaster relief coordinators and disaster relief team leaders." Email NAACP at:

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Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly said his office would be monitoring things, and Governor Mitt Romney issued a warning to the energy industry not to engage in "white-collar looting." More recently congressmen from both parties called on the federal government to investigate the sudden rise in prices. "The American people are being victimized," said US Senator Gordon Smith, Republican of Oregon,

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A judge sent Klansman Edgar Ray Killen back to prison on Friday for the murder of three civil rights workers. The judge determined that Killen had misled the court about his health to win bail.

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September 10, 2005 8:00 p.m. ESTDanielle George - All Headline News Staff ReporterNew York, New York (AHN) - There are now some 2,300 websites advertising Hurricane Katrina relief services. Most of them are presumed to be fake, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.In addition, scammers are four times more prevalent since after the tsunami disaster last year, according to the watchdog

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South Carolina emergency officials said a decision would be made later Saturday on whether any evacuations would be ordered, but Charleston County announced that it would open shelters on Saturday evening for those voluntarily evacuating from low-lying areas and barrier islands.

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Jesus wasn't broke, and leaders of churches shouldn't be either.That's what African-American Bishop Eddie Long, who heads Georgia's biggest church, has to say in defense of his grand lifestyle, funded largely by the nonprofit religious charity he started in 1997.According to tax records, Bishop Eddie Long Ministries, Inc. provided him with more than $3 million in salary and benefits, including a

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It's obvious nobody briefed Mrs. Bush before the cameras started rolling. Pssst.....Mrs. Bush that's Hurricane KATRINA, you know the one your husband used as an excuse to try to wipe out a whole black community in about 4 days? Hurricane KATRiiiiiiiiiNA. Yeah that's the one....Got it now?

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A catastrophe such as Hurricane Katrina has shown how lines of authority can become blurred when it comes to handling an emergency. CNN spoke with a number of legal experts to discuss the law governing the removal of residents from New Orleans.

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