Let It Come Down: Forcing the Constitutional Crisis of Liberty The line it is drawn The curse it is cast... The order is rapidly fading And the first one now Will later be last For the times they are a-changin' Nat Hentoff, one of our great champions of civil liberties, uncovers the ugly truths behind the Bush Regime's plans for a Nuremberg-in-reverse at the American concentration camp in Guantanamo Bay: war ... (more)
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Landowner Asks Supreme Court to Hear Eminent Domain 'Extortion' CaseClaiming he is the victim of legalized extortion carried out under eminent domain powers, a landowner in New York is asking the Supreme Court to hear his case.
Landowner Bart Didden claims in a petition that a developer convinced the village of Port Chester, N.Y., to seize his land through eminent domain after Didden had refused to pay the developer $800,000.
As part of a 1999 redevelopment plan, the council had designated Didden's land as a "redevelopment area." Th... (more)
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Watada states his case in MoiliiliA highly sympathetic crowd of a few hundred people gave Army 1st Lt. Ehren Watada standing ovations before, during and after a speech at the Church of the Crossroads in Moiliili.
Watada, a Honolulu native, faces court-martial in Fort Lewis, Wash., next month on six counts for refusing to deploy to Iraq and for conduct unbecoming an officer, charges that carry a maximum six years' imprisonment. He was back in Honolulu to meet with his attorney and visit with family.
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Linking to copyrighted material could get you suedA LANDMARK ruling down under means that if people link to a page with copyrighted material they could be sued for piracy.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, an Aussie Federal Court upheld a ruling against Stephen Cooper, who ran a site called pp3s4free.net for providing a search engine to enable the illegal downloading of music MP3s.
Also in the dock was his ISP, E-Talk, which had made no efforts to take the site down after it was requested to do so. The court decided ... (more)
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Is It Now Illegal To Link To Other Websites? A landmark legal ruling in Sydney goes further than ever before in setting the trap door for the destruction of the Internet as we know it and the end of alternative news websites and blogs by creating the precedent that simply linking to other websites is breach of copyright and piracy.
Following our report last month that an RIAA legal argument would, if the case was eventually won, criminalize simply making files available on the Internet, many... (more)
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JFK and 9/11The assassination of John F. Kennedy took place 43 years ago on Friday, November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. The following text is the transcript of a lecture delivered by Peter Dale Scott in Dallas on November 18, 2006.
To view the webcast of Peter Dale Scott's lecture, click here
When I first imagined doing this t... (more)
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Sell-Out Democrats Have Walked into a Bush Trap on IraqThe Democratic Party and its feckless leaders in Congress are about to fall into a trap. The trap is being sprung by President Bush and his too clever brain trust, but the sad fact is that it was actually laid by the Democrats themselves.
Taking over the Congress on a wave of popular revulsion at the twin catastrophes in Iraq and Afghanistan, Democrats could have issued immediate calls for an end to those wars, a return of the troops, and investigations into the criminal causes of... (more)
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Justice Department Reviews Own Role in NSA WiretappingThe US Department of Justice’s (USDOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) opened a review of the USDOJ’s role in the National Security Agency’s (NSA) warrantless wiretapping program on November 27, 2006, according to a letter from the OIG to US Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) obtained by Atlanta Progressive News.
APN first reported on the apparent game of "hot potato" several federal agencies appeared to be playing after the call for an investigation by Congressional ... (more)
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Baby is sent through X-ray machine at LAXA woman going through security at Los Angeles International Airport put her month-old grandson into a plastic bin intended for carry-on items and slid it into an X-ray machine.
The early Saturday accident — bizarre but not unprecedented — caught airport workers by surprise, even though the security line was not busy at the time, officials said.
A screener watching the machine's monitor immediately noticed the outline of a baby and pulled the bin backward... (more)
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Neocon Lapdogs: "Round Up Traitors And Put Them In Camps" In a discussion concerning Joy Behar comparing Donald Rumsfeld to Hitler, a Fox News guest yesterday asserted that people like her should be rounded up and put in detention camps because they are traitors.
As reported by Fox watchdog newshounds, The program wa... (more)
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Beckett admits 45-min claim was wrongMargaret Beckett reopened the controversy over the Government's dossier about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction when she admitted yesterday that ministers had realised before the invasion the claim that they could be deployed in 45 minutes was probably wrong.
The Foreign Secretary said the 45-minute claim was of "little relevance" and used only once.
"Perhaps people began to quickly think 'I'm not sure about that'," she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.... (more)
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China may not allow some people to adoptSingle, overweight or older people may soon be out of luck if they hope to adopt children from China.
These and other potential new regulations geared to deal with a backlog of applications to adopt Chinese babies could take effect as soon as May, Fort Worth adoption officials say.
"This is a bad thing if you want to adopt and you might be a single mom, or you [are overweight] or you are over 50," said Marshall Williams, vice president of international adoptions and... (more)
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55,000 sign No 10 petition against road pricingPlans to impose pay as you drive road-pricing on Britain's motorists have run into fierce opposition, with more than 55,000 people signing a Downing Street online petition calling for the scheme to be scrapped.
The number of signatories will be a blow not only to the Government but also to the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats who have also come out in favour of the policy.
The issue has generated a far greater response than any other on the Downing Street website... (more)
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The $2 Trillion Dollar WarWhen America invaded Iraq in 2003, the Bush administration predicted that the war would turn a profit, paying for itself with increased oil revenues. So far, though, Congress has spent more than $350 billion on the conflict, including the $50 billion appropriated for 2007.
But according to one of the world's leading economists, that is just a fraction of ... (more)
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Morgan Stanley charged with using '9/11 smokescreen' to hide e-mailsIn a disciplinary complaint, the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) alleges that Morgan Stanley used a "9/11 smokescreen" to hide e-mails sought by angry claimants in numerous arbitration proceedings from October 2001 through March 2005.
The securities industry's self-regulating arm accuses Morgan Stanley of "falsely claiming that millions of emails it possessed had been lost in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, where its em... (more)
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Where's the Accountability for the Dead and Wounded?Sean Penn received the 2006 Christopher Reeve First Amendment Award from the Creative Coalition on December 18, 2006, in New York City, where he delivered the following speech.
The Christopher Reeve First Amendment Award. For the purposes of tonight and my own personal enjoyment, I'm going to yield to the notion that I deserve this.
And in the spirit of that, tell you... (more)
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Rudy's Web Bio Deep-Sixes Kids From Previous MarriageOn Rudy Giuliani's new exploratory committee website you can find a bio of the former Mayor and current frontrunner for the GOP Presidential nomination. The bio describes his current marriage as follows: "In May of 2003, Rudy married Judith S. Nathan. Mrs. Giuliani is a registered nurse with an extensive medical and scientific background." Yet intriguingly, Rudy's bio makes no mention of... (more)
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Tape contradicts Miami CongresswomanWASHINGTON - An Emmy Award-winning documentarian, angered over Miami Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen's charge that a video in which she appears to endorse the assassination of Fidel Castro was altered to make her look more extreme, is circulating another version of the video to make his case.
The uncut version of director Dollan Cannell's video shows Ros-Lehtinen twice welcoming an attempt on Castro's life.
''Ileana Ros-Lehtinen has made a very serious accusation ... (more)
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Daughter of Chinese Human Rights Attorney Beaten Geng Ge, the daughter of Beijing-based human rights attorney Gao Zhisheng who is currently under secret trial, complained that the Chinese state security officers that had been following her family and her beat her up on Saturday, December 16, and caused bruises on her back and thighs. Chinese human rights activists condemn the state security officers' violence on the teen.
After attending an additional class at school at noon on Saturday, December 16, 2006, 13-year-old Geng Ge p... (more)
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Chavez Landslide Tops All In US HistoryWell almost, as explained below. Hugo Chavez Frias' reelection on December 3 stands out when compared to the greatest landslide presidential victories in US history. Except for the close race in 1812 and the electoral deadlock in 1800 decided by the House of Representatives choosing Thomas Jefferson over Aaron Burr, the very earliest elections here weren't hardly partisan contests at all as the Democrat-Republican party of Jefferson and Madison was dominant and had everything its own way. It was... (more)
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Bush 'brainwashed' Blair on Iraq Iraq's vice-president claims Tony Blair was "brainwashed" by President Bush into not setting a timetable for troop withdrawal from Iraq.
Tareq al-Hashemi suggested Mr Blair had supported his idea of announcing a timetable, but then changed his mind after talking to Mr Bush.
The two leaders discussed the issue about three months ago, after which the PM was to raise the issue with Mr Bush.
The US president has so far refused to set a timetable for troo... (more)
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Top general in Mideast to retireWASHINGTON — Army Gen. John P. Abizaid, commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, has submitted plans to retire and will leave his post in March, a step likely to make way for a change in military strategy at a time the Bush administration is seeking a new plan for Iraq.
Abizaid has been the primary architect of U.S. military strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan since becoming head of the U.S. Central Command more than three years ago. He has strenuously resisted calls to inc... (more)
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UK ditches single ID database The UK government has ditched plans to put all our identities on one big database, saying that sticking with existing systems will help cut fraud and save money.
But this is not a U-turn. Home Secretary John Reid was very clear about that.
The system will now be built using existing data, with additional information being stored on existing databases.
As it is collected, biometric information will be stored on systems that are used to keep record of ... (more)
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