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Sunday October 1st, 2006
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Official calls for 'poor crackhead parents' to be sterilized: "We pick up stray animals and spay them. These mothers need to be spayed if they can't take care of theirs."
posted 10/01/2006, 11:25 PM (The Post and Courier)
[Category: Brave New World]
Charleston City Councilman Larry Shirley says the robbery of a downtown video store - allegedly by a band of kids, including one too young to be charged - is a sure sign society has gone awry, and it's time to start a "dialogue."
And one of the things he says needs to be talked about is whether bad parents should be sterilized.
"What we've got is a failure in society, whether it's in Mount Pleasant with yuppie parents or whether it's on the East Side with poor crackhead parents," Shirley said Friday. "We pick up stray animals and spay them. These mothers need to be spayed if they can't take care of theirs. ... Once they have a child and it's running the streets, to let them continue to have children is totally unacceptable." Deadbeat dads might ought to be sterilized as well, he said.
Wednesday night, police arrested a 14-year-old girl and 12-year-old boy in connection with a stickup at the Hollywood Video at East Bay and Calhoun streets.
A 9-year-old who was apparently involved was taken home to his mother by police, saying he was too young to charge.
Shirley, like many in the community, was aghast that someone could be turned loose for being too young to be charged with a crime, and that the parents of these kids had no idea what they were up to at 9 p.m. on a school night.
"It is a tragedy to bring a child into this world and subject them to the world in that video," Shirley said, referring to a DVD found by police earlier this year that featured local residents flashing guns and drugs to the beat of gangsta rap.
If a child is too young to do time for a crime, his folks ought to do it, Shirley said.
This, Shirley says, is not about race. He said that the only difference between the East Side holdup and the Wando High School students who were charged with a string of robberies is that "Mount Pleasant parents have the money to get lawyers for thei... (more) |
RIP, Bill of Rights, RIP
posted 10/01/2006, 11:25 PM (The Nation)
[Category: Commentary]
On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which led to the internment of 120,000 Japenese civilians, 2/3 of whom were US citizens, in military camps across the western half of the country. Effectively stripping Japanese Americans of virtually all constitutional protections (including rights to property, ... (more) |
Accessories to Torture
posted 10/01/2006, 11:25 PM (The Nation)
[Category: Commentary]
These are grim days for the Constitution. The House and the Senate have passed the catastrophic "compromise" negotiated by senators McCain & Co. to the President's "enemy combatants" bill. The only thing compromised is the rule of law; the bill still strips detainees of the right to appeal, broadens the President's unilateral powers to decide who is an enemy and which interrogation methods violate the Geneva Conventions, and fatally undermines the War Crimes Act. The bill was rushed to passage j... (more) |
Rounding Up U.S. Citizens
posted 10/01/2006, 11:24 PM (Counter Punch)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
The Military Commissions Act of 2006 governing the treatment of detainees is the culmination of relentless fear-mongering by the Bush administration since the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Because the bill was adopted with lightning speed, barely anyone noticed that it empowers Bush to declare not just aliens, but also U.S. citizens, "unlawful enemy combatants."
Bush & Co. has portrayed the bill as a tough way to deal with aliens to protect us against terrorism. F... (more) |
Video: Congressman 'tolerated' forced abortions, sex slavery
posted 10/01/2006, 11:24 PM (Raw Story)
[Category: General]
Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA) knew of and tolerated forced abortions, sex slavery and sweatshop conditions in the Northern Marianas Islands, says his challenger.
Retired Lt. Col. Charlie Brown, Democratic candidate for California's 4th District, asserts Doolittle was aware of the abuses while he helped, with the aid of convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, to fund the islands' government that allegedly exploited its workers.
In a debate on KCRA 3 TV News in Sacramento, Bro... (more) |
Legislating Violations of the Constitution
posted 10/01/2006, 11:24 PM (Washington Post)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
With little public attention or even notice, the House of Representatives has passed a bill that undermines enforcement of the First Amendment's separation of church and state. The Public Expression of Religion Act - H.R. 2679 - provides that attorneys who successfully challenge government actions as violating the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment shall not be entitled to recover attorneys fees. The bill has only one purpose: to prevent suits challenging unconstitutional government act... (more) |
Afghan injury toll 'three times worse than MoD admits'
posted 10/01/2006, 11:24 PM (London Telegraph)
[Category: Cover-Up/Deceptions]
Three times as many British soldiers have been wounded in action in Afghanistan as the Government has admitted, a report has concluded.
Defence chiefs claim it is "too difficult" to keep a record of every soldier injured fighting the Taliban, resulting in troops returning to the front after being patched up by medics and then left off official lists.
According to the Ministry of Defence (MoD), only 41 soldiers ha... (more) |
Reid fights to end torture shield for terror suspects in UK
posted 10/01/2006, 11:24 PM (London Times)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
JOHN REID, the home secretary, is heading for a showdown with the judiciary over plans to strip some terror suspects of the automatic right to be protected from torture.
Reid is preparing a new anti-terror law that would sideline human rights legislation protecting suspects from torture if ministers ruled there were “overriding considerations of national security”.
The move is aimed at foreign terrorist suspec... (more) |
White House in crisis over 'Iraq lies' claims
posted 10/01/2006, 11:24 PM (London Observer)
[Category: Cover-Up/Deceptions]
President George Bush was braced for one of the toughest fights of his political life yesterday as a fierce row broke out over whether he has been misleading the American public over the worsening violence in Iraq. The crisis also rippled across the Atlantic with claims that the administration hid crucial Iraq intelligence from its British allies.
Sparking the crisis was a series of leaks from a hard-hitting new book by the political j... (more) |
Missing Link Atta “Martyrdom” Video Appears Five Weeks Before Election
posted 10/01/2006, 11:24 PM (Kurt Nimmo)
[Category: Commentary]
Suddenly, with the midterm election five weeks away, a previously undiscovered video emerges, showing Mohammed Atta “reading his ‘martyrdom’ will inside Afghanistan at Usama bin Laden’s headquarters.”
In another segment, Atta appears with Ziad Jarrah, who, according to the official nine eleven fairy tale, was the pilot of “United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania after the passengers apparently stormed the flight deck,” according to |
Flamed Out GOP Star Arrested For Child Sex Assault
posted 10/01/2006, 11:22 PM (Colorado Confidential)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
 Randal D. "Randy" Ankeney, the convicted sex offender who just a few short years ago was a rising GOP star in Colorado, is being held on a $1 million bond in Larimer County.Ankeney, 35, who was arrested Wednesday, is facing five counts of sexual assault on a child, three counts of sexual enticement of a child and one count of sexual exploitation of a child. The felonies, if he is convicted, could send him to prison for life. The charges come less than 15 months after the former attorney, he ... (more)Related: This film is not supposed to exist... |
Former page: We knew about Foley 'for years'
posted 10/01/2006, 11:22 PM (Scripps Howard News Service)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
WASHINGTON — Sexually explicit messages from former Rep. Mark Foley to one former congressional page might be just the tip of the iceberg, the leader of an alumni association for former congressional pages told Scripps Howard News Service on Saturday.
While Foley resigned this week after published reports of "friendly" e-mails to one 16-year-old male page and the pending broadcast of more sexually explicit instant messages, similar graphic messages from him were received by a... (more) |
The CIA: Back to Somalia
posted 10/01/2006, 11:21 PM (Agence Global)
[Category: Geopolitics]
Somalia suddenly hit the headlines this spring when its capital, Mogadishu, was captured by the forces of the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC). After 1995 the world had mostly forgotten the country because of the failure of the United Nations' humanitarian and military efforts there in 1992-95.
Somalia has in principle had a government since October 2004: the transitional federal government (TFG). It was internationally recognised, but could not sit in Mogadishu, which was still in t... (more) |
Democrats Slap GOP for Keeping E-mails Secret
posted 10/01/2006, 11:21 PM (Associated Press)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
WASHINGTON (Oct. 1) - Democrats demanded on Sunday that House Republicans keep them in the loop and thoroughly investigate former Rep. Mark Foley's inappropriate e-mails to a 16-year-old boy. The White House went further, suggesting the need for a criminal probe.
"This should be investigated objectively. I think the Democratic leadership should have been told 10 months ago," said Rep. Jane Harman of California, top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. "I gather that basic... (more) |
Right on Time: The laughing 9/11 bombers
posted 10/01/2006, 11:20 PM (The Sunday Times)
[Category: General]
FILM of the ringleader of the September 11 hijackers reading his “martyrdom” will inside Afghanistan at Osama Bin Laden’s headquarters has emerged five years after the Al-Qaeda outrage.
It is the first time that a videotape has appeared of Mohammed Atta — who flew an American Airlines plane into the north tower of the World Trade Center — at a training camp in Afghanistan. It fills in a significant gap in the timing of the build-up to the attacks on the United States.
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Two Months Before 9/11, an Urgent Warning to Rice
posted 10/01/2006, 11:20 PM (Washington Post)
[Category: General]
On July 10, 2001, two months before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, then-CIA Director George J. Tenet met with his counterterrorism chief, J. Cofer Black, at CIA headquarters to review the latest on Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda terrorist organization. Black laid out the case, consisting of communications intercepts and other top-secret intelligence showing the increasing likelihood that al-Qaeda would soon attack the United States. It was a mass of fragments and dots ... (more) |
Chavez: Assassination Attempt Foiled
posted 10/01/2006, 11:20 PM (Associated Press)
[Category: Geopolitics]
CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo Chavez, who has repeatedly spoken of various plots on his life, said Saturday a sniper with a long-range gun and a motorcycle to escape on had planned to shoot him as he exited a helicopter on a recent trip to western Venezuela.
The incident allegedly occurred when Chavez visited the western oil-producing region of Zulia in June to inaugurate a refurbished fertilizer plant. Chavez appeared to link the plot to his main rival in upcoming presiden... (more) |
'Operation Return to Sender' stumbles
posted 10/01/2006, 11:19 PM (Raw Story)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
Questions are being raised about the arrest, detention, and treatment of a long-term Ukrainian legal resident alien in Florida.
Bella Maryanovsky, a thirty-year legal resident of the United States, was arrested last week on Tuesday, September 19, when she entered immigration offices for a routine update of her green card papers. It appears she was arrested under a new immigration program called “Operation Return to Sender.”
According to Michael Chertoff in a June 20... (more) |
Bush Hails 'Free' Kazakhstan
posted 10/01/2006, 11:18 PM (Los Angeles Times)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
WASHINGTON — Seeking to encourage Kazakhstan to embrace democracy, President Bush on Friday characterized the oil-rich Central Asian country that faces continued criticism from human rights organizations as "a free nation."
With President Nursultan A. Nazarbayev at his side in the Oval Office, Bush said the United States and Kazakhstan shared a goal of defeating "extremism" and supporting "the forces of moderation throughout the world."
Nazarbayev, who first visited the Ov... (more) |
Bush calls for 'world offensive'
posted 10/01/2006, 11:18 PM (news.com.au)
[Category: General]
STUNG by criticism, US President George W. Bush has called for fighting America's enemies "across the world" as he stepped up his counter-offensive following charges that his policies were breeding a new generation of Islamic terrorists.
The call, delivered in his weekly radio address, was aimed to counter a rash of accusations that the Bush administration had seriously mishandled the war in Iraq and created fertile political ground for Islamic extremism.
The critic... (more) |
Secret Reports Dispute White House Optimism
posted 10/01/2006, 11:18 PM (Washington Post)
[Category: Cover-Up/Deceptions]
On May 22, 2006, President Bush spoke in Chicago and gave a characteristically upbeat forecast: "Years from now, people will look back on the formation of a unity government in Iraq as a decisive moment in the story of liberty, a moment when freedom gained a firm foothold in the Middle East and the forces of terror began their long retreat."
Two days later, the intelligence division of the Joint Chiefs of Staff circulated a secret intelligence assessment to the White House that co... (more) |
Marwahin, 15 July 2006: The anatomy of a massacre
posted 10/01/2006, 11:18 PM (The Independent)
[Category: Commentary]
In antiquity, Pliny wrote of the cliffs of Bayada. The chalk runs down to the Mediterranean in an almost Dover-like cascade of white rock, and the view from the top - just below the little Lebanese village of Chama'a - is breathtaking. To the south lies the United Nations headquarters and the Israeli frontier, to the north the city of Tyre, its long promentary, built by Alexander the Great, lunging out into the green-blue sea. A winding, poorly-made road runs down to the shore below Cha... (more) |
When Soldiers Go to War, Flat Daddies Hold Their Place at Home
posted 10/01/2006, 11:18 PM (New York Times)
[Category: General]
HERMON, Me. — It was the first day of school, and distance not withstanding, 9-year-old Baylee Smith wanted to take a picture with her father, Mark, who is stationed with a National Guard unit in Afghanistan. Real daddy was not available, but Sergeant Smith’s doppelgänger was.
“Where’s Flat Daddy?” an excited Baylee asked as her stepmother, Jennifer Smith, pulled a large cardboard picture of Sergeant Smith, in his uniform, out of her Chevy Blazer and propped him on the ... (more) |
Video: Colin Powell claims he was fired by President Bush
posted 10/01/2006, 11:15 PM (Raw Story)
[Category: Cover-Up/Deceptions]
Colin Powell claims he was fired by the Bush Administration, according to his official biography which was excerpted in the Washington Post's Sunday magazine.
After his termination, Powell and the Bush Administration had used the cover story that Powell resigned of his own accord from his position as Secretary of State.
The following is the relevant text of Powell's official biography published in the Washington Post:... (more) |
Kerik Under Investigation ... Again
posted 10/01/2006, 11:14 PM (MSNBC)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
Oct. 9, 2006 issue - New legal problems appear to be looming for Bernard Kerik, the onetime New York City police commissioner and unsuccessful nominee for Homeland Security secretary. Kerik's lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, confirmed to NEWSWEEK that federal prosecutors are investigating Kerik for an alleged conversation he had with Jeanine Pirro, GOP candidate for New York state attorney general, about bugging a family boat so Pirro could determine whether her husband was having an affair.
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Blood & guts: At the front with the poor bloody infantry
posted 10/01/2006, 11:10 PM (The Independent)
[Category: Cover-Up/Deceptions]
"We headed off to what can only be described as the Wild West." Those are the words, not of a beleaguered British squaddie, but of a Canadian officer in a unit sent to help rescue our troops in the lawless Afghan province of Helmand. His account, emailed to family and friends back in Canada, is the most detailed to emerge from what commanders have called the most desperate fighting British troops have seen since the Korean War.
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Israel guilty of collective punishment in Gaza: UN envoy
posted 10/01/2006, 11:10 PM (Hindustan Times)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
Israel is guilty of "collective punishment" of the Palestinian people through its military actions in the Gaza Strip, a United Nations human rights official said on Friday.
"Israeli action has failed to discriminate between militants and civilians. In summary, its action in Gaza constitutes collective punishment of the Palestinian people," John Dugard said.
The UN special envoy for human rights in the Palestinian territories told the world body's rights council in G... (more) |
The New Face of Class War in America
posted 10/01/2006, 11:10 PM (Counter Punch)
[Category: Commentary]
The attacks on middle-class jobs are lending new meaning to the phrase "class war". The ladders of upward mobility are being dismantled. America, the land of opportunity, is giving way to ever deepening polarization between rich and poor.
The assault on jobs predates the Bush regime. However, the loss of middle-class jobs has become particularly intense in the 21st century, and, like other pressing problems, has been ignored by President Bush, who is focused on waging war in the M... (more) |
British troops in secret truce with the Taliban
posted 10/01/2006, 11:09 PM (The Times)
[Category: Geopolitics]
BRITISH troops battling the Taliban are to withdraw from one of the most dangerous areas of Afghanistan after agreeing a secret deal with the local people.
Over the past two months British soldiers have come under sustained attack defending a remote mud-walled government outpost in the town of Musa Qala in southern Afghanistan. Eight have been killed there.
It has now been agreed the troops will quietly pull out of Musa Qala in return for the Taliban doing the same.... (more) |
US boosts Israel aid by half a billion
posted 10/01/2006, 11:09 PM (ynet)
[Category: Geopolitics]
(WASHINGTON) The US congress has approved a USD 500 million aid package for the development of joint defense systems with Israel.
The package was approved as part of the USD 447.6 billion defense budget for 2007, which includes USD 70 billion for the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The package comes in addition to USD 2.36 billion in military aid granted to Israel by the US each year.
Israeli officials welcomed the move, which they say underlines US... (more) |
Big Brother Watches and Talks to You
posted 10/01/2006, 11:09 PM (ABC)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
Britain stands guard with more than 4 million security cameras, or CCTVs, as they call them over here. That's one for every 14 people in the country. The British are among the most-watched people on earth.
And now one town in the north of England has taken CCTV technology a step further.
The monitors in Middlesbrough's CCTV control room show a drunk put back a traffic cone, a vandal replace a strip light he had pulled... (more) |
Aiming to catch criminals red-footed
posted 10/01/2006, 11:08 PM (The Times)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
 THEY may be able to wear disguises, dodge CCTV and even keep their DNA under control, but one thing will always identify criminals — their walk.
Far from relying on fingerprints or photofit, scientists now believe that an individual’s gait can give the game away.
Police have databanks of palm prints, ear prints and handwriting at their disposal, as well facial recognition systems that can match fugitive faces with those in a crowd. But the next step could be swagger... (more) |
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