NY Times: 'Bizarre' secrecy in domestic wiretap lawsuitsSecrecy is at issue in lawsuits opposing domestic wiretapping, The New York Times will report on its front page Friday.
"The Bush administration has employed extraordinary secrecy in defending the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program from civil lawsuits," writes Adam Liptak for the Times. "Now, though, the procedures used to enforce that secrecy have started to meet significant resistance."
Judges who are soon to hear an appeal in one of the case... (more)
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Kuwait May Abandon Dollar Peg to Protect its EconomyJan. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Kuwait, the third-largest Arab oil producer, may abandon the dinar's peg against the dollar in favor of a basket of currencies to help minimize economic harm after the dollar declined.
``We might go to a basket for an interim period,'' Bader al- Humaidhi, Kuwait's finance minister, told reporters today at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. ``The dollar fell a lot against the euro last year, but if we'd been linked to a basket we wouldn't hav... (more)
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Russia: Federation Council approves ban on dual citizenship for govt ministersMOSCOW. Jan 24 (Interfax) - The Federation Council has passed a bill prohibiting persons that hold dual citizenship from serving as Russian government ministers, which were earlier passed in the State Duma, at a meeting on Wednesday.
Under the bill, which amends the law on the Russian government, deputy prime ministers and ministers must not possess dual citizenship. Only a Russian citizen, who "does not have the citizenship of another state, as well as a residence permit or any o... (more)
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The Empire Turns Its Guns on the CitizenryIn recent years American police forces have called out SWAT teams 40,000 or more times annually. Last year did you read in your newspaper or hear on TV news of 110 hostage or terrorist events each day? No. What then were the SWAT teams doing? They were serving routine warrants to people who posed no danger to the police or to the public.
Occasionally Washington think tanks produce reports that are not special pleading for donors. One such report is Radley Balko's "Overkill: The Ri... (more) 
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Flint City Council passes daytime curfew for childrenFLINT, Mich. (AP) - Flint children under the age of 17 will be banned from public places during daytime hours under a new ordinance approved by the City Council.
The curfew will be in effect from 9:00 to 2:00 on school days. It goes into effect in about a month.
Councilman Sheldon Neeley says statistics show that more than 60 percent of Flint ninth graders will not graduate.
The ordinance allows police to arrest a child who is supposed to be in school... (more)
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FOX News Reporter Claims That Democrats and Republicans Have Joined With Al Qaeda to Protest the Bush Surge PlanPresident George Bush is set to deliver the State of the Union speech tonight. In light of mounting opposition from both sides of the aisle, he will try to justify his arguments for escalating the war in Iraq. Bush is going into this speech with virtually no support from Democrats and growing dissatisfaction from Republicans. He really needed an eleventh hour save, something to make the American people believe that he is right and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Iraq Study... (more)
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Texas court bans deep linkingA court in Dallas, Texas has found a website operator liable for copyright infringement because his site linked to an 'audio webcast' without permission. Observers have criticised the judge for failing to understand the internet.
Robert Davis runs Supercrosslive.com and put direct links on his site to audio streams of motorcycle racing. Those streams were created, owned and hosted by SFX Motor Sports, which is behind some of the events covered.
A preliminary injunct... (more)
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'CIA and Mossad are Behind the Hrant Dink Murder'DIYARBAKIR - Sevket Kazan, Deputy of the Saadet Party (SP) of Turkey, argued that the CIA and Mossad planned and organised the murder against the Armenian Turkish journalist Hrant Dink.
"The boys were used in Trabzon and in Sisli attacks and murders, but the real murderer are the CIA and the Mossad" Mr. Kazan said. Sevket Kazan further continued in his Diyarbakir speech:
"Armenian journalist Hrant Dink is a victim of an assasination. Of course, it is an event to be ... (more)
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American students attack Palestinian students on US soilA hostile encounter at a Guilford College residence hall between students reputed to be members of the football team and three Palestinian students preparing for a night on the town escalated into a flurry of ethnic slurs that ended in the three being hospitalized with concussions.
The assaults took place in the courtyard of Bryan Hall early in the morning hours of Jan. 20 at Guilford, a Quaker college in Greensboro that holds a national reputation for its emphasis on social justi... (more)
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Off the Rails: Big Oil, Big Brother Win Big in the State of the UnionThere was that tongue again. When the President lies he’s got this weird nervous tick: He sticks the tip of his tongue out between his lips. Like a little boy who knows he’s fibbing. Like a snake licking a rat.
In his State of the Union tonight the President did his tongue thing 124 times — my kids kept count.
But it wasn’t all rat-licking lies.
Most pundits concentrated on Iraq and wacky health insurance stuff. But that&rsqu... (more)
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Institute Says British People Ready To Forget FreedomThe foremost social research institute in the United Kingdom has today revealed results of its annual 'Social Attitudes' survey that show an overwhelming majority of people in Britain are ready to accept ID cards, phone tapping, curfews, electronic tagging, the opening of private mail and extensions to detention without charge.
The Guardian reports the findings from the Nati... (more)
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Bush Speech Terror Claim Debunked A Year Ago A claim made by President Bush in his State of the Union speech last night, that an attack on an L.A. skyscraper had been averted, was universally debunked as a hoax by Mayors, CIA, FBI and NSA personnel and counter-terror experts nearly a year ago when it first surfaced. By regurgitating this fraud, Bush has committed an impeachable offense by knowingly lying to the American people.
Bush's address was punctuated with deception, horse hockey and propagandisti... (more)
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'There is no war on terror'The director of public prosecutions, Sir Ken Macdonald, put himself at odds with the home secretary and Downing Street last night by denying that Britain is caught up in a "war on terror" and calling for a "culture of legislative restraint" in passing laws to deal with terrorism.
Sir Ken warned of the pernicious risk that a "fear-driven and inappropriate" response to the threat could lead Britain to abandon respect for fair trials and the due process of law.
He ackn... (more)
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Huge majority say civil liberty curbs a 'price worth paying' to fight terrorAn overwhelming majority of people in Britain are willing to surrender civil liberties to help tackle the threat of terrorism, the nation's leading social research institute will disclose today.
The survey found seven in every 10 people think compulsory identity cards for all adults would be "a price worth paying" to reduce the threat of terrorism. Eight in 10 say the authorities should be able to tap the phones of people suspected of involvement in terrorism, open their mail and ... (more)
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All of a sudden, Ed Brown has a lot of friendsEd Brown parted ways with his wife last week when he decided not to join her for the conclusion of their federal tax evasion trial. But after barricading himself in his fortified Plainfield home and refusing to surrender to authorities, Brown has amassed a new and growing group of friends who support his decision to stand up to government authority.
Since Brown and his wife were convicted last week, his case has captured the attention of a variety of fringe groups, including Gandh... (more)
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Key 9/11 survivor in LancasterTHE last man to leave the World Trade Center building alive is coming to Lancaster on Thursday, February 8, to speak on his experiences during and since 9/11. Visitor news editor INGRID KENT hears what William Rodriguez has to stay and finds out why he will be travelling all the way to the UK to give a lecture
WILLIAM Rodriguez was working as a janitor in the World Trade Center on the ninth of September 2001 when he heard explosions – from below.
But Wi... (more)
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