Student Tasered at City Council meeting for wearing baseball capSAGINAW (WJRT) - (11/07/06)--Saginaw's City Council meeting featured a shocking incident Monday night. A Saginaw Valley State University student was TASERed after he became unruly after being asked to take off his baseball cap.
There is a new rule at Saginaw City Council meetings. Men are required to take their hats off. Evidently, they are pretty serious about this new rule.
The man was wearing a Los Angeles Dodgers hat. Officer Doug Stacer of the Saginaw Police D... (more)
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Bush's Chernobyl Economy; hard times are on the wayIn the next few months, a financial crisis will arise somewhere in the world which will jolt the American economy and trigger a swift and precipitous decline in the value of the dollar.
This is not speculation; it will happen and there is nothing that the Bush administration can do to stop it.
All of the traditional supports for the dollar have been removed by the shrinking economy, a massive $800 billion account deficit, dramatic increases in the money supply, and ... (more)
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Howard Dean Says No Impeachment Of Bush Howard Dean last night said there would be no impeachment proceedings against President Bush under a Democrat controlled Congress, echoing the pledge of Nancy Pelosi to protect the administration that lied a nation into a war and dismantled the very fabric of America.
Here's the exchange from Dean's appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night.
STEWART: "How long in your mind do you feel it's gonna be before power corr... (more)
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The CIA, the MCA, and Detainee AbuseThe Bush Administration recently admitted that, over the past several years, the CIA has run a system of secret overseas prisons. It is believed that more than 100 terrorism suspects have been held in this covert system, at one point or another, over the last five years.
With the Supreme Court's landmark decision in the case of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld this June, the illegality of the CIA detention program became unmistakably clear. The Court ruled that al Qaeda suspects we... (more)
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CCTV is checking your rubbish CCTV cameras have been installed at a household waste site in the district which was recently rebuilt.
The news comes at a time when it has been revealed that the UK has more surveillance than most other countries with a CCTV camera for every 14 people.
The latest Big Brother cameras have been placed at various locations at the Dark Lane depot in Harpenden including the entrance and exit to enable Herts County Council to check vehicle registr... (more)
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Our Long National Nightmare Has Just BegunNEW YORK--"My fellow Americans," assured incoming president Gerald Ford hours after the Watergate scandals forced Richard Nixon to resign, "our long national nightmare is over."
I'm tempted, in the aftermath of the widest and most stunning electoral repudiation of Republicanism since Watergate, to mark the Democratic recapture of governorships, the House of Representatives (and probably the Senate) as the beginning of the end of Bush's fascism lite, and thus a long overdue vindica... (more)
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The real Manchurian CandidateThe colonel who commanded one of the Army's most famous feats of arms was a real-life Manchurian Candidate, brainwashed by communists to return home and create confusion in Britain.
Lt Col James Power "Fred" Carne, the commander of the 1st Bn Gloucestershire Regt (the Glorious Glosters) at the battle of Imjin, Korea, in April 1951, fell into Chinese captivity after his 700-man battalion's astonishing resistance against an estimated 11,000 attackers was finally overcome.
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Will the Democrats Become Part of the Problem?It only took six years for Americans to comprehend George Bush and the Republican Party and to realize that the Republicans were not leading America in any promising directions.
Exit polls and interviews with voters across the country by CNN political analyst Bill Schneider show that the November 2006 election was a vote against both Bush and the war in Iraq. Schneider reports that voters did not even know the name of the Democrats for whom they voted. Voters said: “I am goi... (more)
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We overcame our fear: The unarmed women of the Gaza Strip have taken the lead in resisting Israel's latest bloody assaultYesterday at dawn, the Israeli air force bombed and destroyed my home. I was the target, but instead the attack killed my sister-in-law, Nahla, a widow with eight children in her care. In the same raid Israel's artillery shelled a residential district in the town of Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip, leaving 19 dead and 40 injured, many killed in their beds. One family, the Athamnas, lost 16 members in the massacre: the oldest who died, Fatima, was 70; the youngest, Dima, was one; seven were childre... (more)
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Field of screams: The real election winners and losersForget political correctness. The revolution has NOT arrived! Bush is still president. The corporate state is safe. The Upper Class has little to fear. Lobbyists will be writing different names on checks. Winning Democrats will entertain more than they will produce historic restorative reforms. Did Republicans deserve to lose? Of course!
However, Americans who thought their votes would bring much needed change to our political system also lost. They just don’t know or admit ... (more)
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Iraqi Official: 150,000 Civilians Dead BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A stunning new death count emerged Thursday, as Iraq's health minister estimated at least 150,000 civilians have been killed in the war -- about three times previously accepted estimates.
Moderate Sunni Muslims, meanwhile, threatened to walk away from politics and pick up guns, while the Shiite-dominated government renewed pressure on the United States to unleash the Iraqi army and claimed it could crush violence in six months.
After Democrats swep... (more)
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1,500 Baathists assassinated in southAssassinating former members of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party is going on unabated particularly in southern Iraq, according to an independent group monitoring human rights in Iraq.
“The number of Baathists killed since the start of 2006 has reached 1,556 people and none of the cases has been investigated,†the group, Freedom Monitoring Commission, said in a statement faxed to Azzaman.
It said the killings took p... (more)
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Saddam: Let's now charge the accomplicesIn a show trial whose theatrical climax was clearly timed to promote George W Bush in the American midterm elections, Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced to hang. Drivel about "end of an era" and "a new start for Iraq" was promoted by the usual false moral accountants, who uttered not a word about bringing the tyrant's accomplices to justice. Why are these accomplices not being charged with aiding and abetting crimes against humanity?
Why isn't George Bush Snr being charged... (more)
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Scrapbook Terrorist's 9/11 Foreknowledge? A loner wannabe 'Al Qaeda' member was this week sentenced to life imprisonment for his delirious scribblings and cobbled together home movies that apparently suggest he wanted to set off dirty bombs and bring down buildings in London and New York.
As we have previously reported, Dhiren Barot did not have the means to carry out anything of the s... (more)
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Gates Has History of Manipulating Intelligence Robert Gates, the former director of the CIA during the presidency of George H.W. Bush who was tapped Tuesday by the president to replace Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense, is part of Texas's good ol' boy network. He may be best known for playing a role in arming Iraq's former dictator Saddam Hussein with American-made weapons in the country's war against Iran in the 1980s.
Gates, who currently is president of Texas A&M University, came under intense fire during confirma... (more)
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Meet Robert M. Gates, Iran-Contra Crook and Bush 41 CIA ChiefHow twisted is this country? An Iran-Contra crook and ex-CIA chief is immediately greeted as a sane, grown-up yet “fresh” replacement for the delusional old Donald Rumsfeld.
Even more fun, Gates’ nemesis Daniel Ortega was elected president of Nicaragua on Monday. You may remember Ortega as the Sandinista leader who fought off the Contras in ... (more)
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Rumsfeld Dumped, Bush Suggests a SpookIt is all smoke and mirrors, as usual.
“Robert Gates, the 63-year-old career intelligence officer chosen to replace Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon, takes over with the clearest of missions: get American troops out of Iraq as quickly and cleanly as possible,” reports the Times Online.
In fact, this is not the “clearest of missions,” as Congress, inc... (more)
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The Deeper Reality Behind Rumsfeld's Resignation As Don Rumsfeld is tossed overboard by the panicky Bushes (who value loyalty to themselves above all other virtues but never, ever, practice it toward others; there will be many more bodies left behind as the Family rallies to clean up Junior's mess again), Steve Gilliard steps in below to remind us that what we are actually dealing with here is not politics, not some Beltway horse race, or some idiotic media game of "who's up, who's down." The iss... (more)
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'Aliens could attack at any time' warns former MoD chiefUFO sightings and alien visitors tend to be solely the reserve of sci-fi movies.
So when a former MoD chief warns that the country could be attacked by extraterrestrials at any time, you may be forgiven for feeling a little alarmed.
During his time as head of the Ministry of Defence UFO project, Nick Pope was persuaded into believing that other lifeforms may visit Earth and, more specifically, Britain.
His concern is that "highly credible" sightings a... (more)
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Very weird result in the CT race. Lamont loses with EXACT number that republican did in 2000 Very weird result in the CT race. Lamont loses with EXACT number that republican did in 2000
Okay I was wondering how LIEberman did in 2000 so after spending a half hour trying to track down the numbers I found them on the FEC site.
(I just rechecked the numbers and I had copied them wrong. they are exactly the same)
drummer55's diary :: ::
In 2000 here is the break down in voting per
http://... (more)
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Is Barot a political prisoner? Dhiren Barot has been sentenced to 40 years imprisonment. What has he done to deserve this - a serial rapist or mass murderer perhaps. Apparently not. Although called a senior al-Qaida terrorist plotting carnage, he in fact was imprisoned using a conspiracy charge. The length of the sentence with this made me think of a political trial and as luck would have it i have a book by one, Peter Hain, entitled "Political Trials in Britain". In it is a whole chapter on conspiracy charges and how they... (more)
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In reporting Rumsfeld reversal, will media note that Bush has been caught in apparent lie about Cabinet switch before?In reporting Rumsfeld reversal, will media note that Bush has been caught in apparent lie about Cabinet switch before?
During a November 8 press conference, President Bush announced that Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld was resigning. Bush's remarks came less than a week after he pledged that he would keep Rumsfeld on as defense secretary until the end of his presidency. When asked about the dra... (more)
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Tollway Chief Quits, Linked To Gay Porn SitesTAMPA - Ralph Mervine, executive director of the Tampa-Hillsborough County Expressway Authority, resigned Wednesday after a Tampa Tribune investigation found he is listed as the owner of a gay pornographic film production company.
The San Diego-based company, Coast Productions, operates at least two adult Web sites and has an adult Yahoo membership group. All three advertise and display young men, ages 18 to 21, offering photos and video clips of explicit sexual activities.
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Russia Concerned About Space Weapons Deployment -- Putin President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Russia was concerned about foreign nations planning to deploy weapons in space and developing armaments he called destabilizing, The Associated Press News agency reports.
While Putin didn’t name any country, his remarks appeared to reflect a growing strain in ties with the U.S.
“Some nations are trying to untie their hands to deploy weapons in space, including nuclear weapons,” Pu... (more)
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Is this the end of the road for traffic lights?Most traffic lights should be torn up as they make roads less safe, one of Europe's leading road engineers said yesterday.
Hans Monderman, a traffic planner involved in a Brussels-backed project known as Shared Space, said that taking lights away helped motorists, cyclists and pedestrians to co-exist more happily and safely.
Residents of the northern Dutch town of Drachten have already been used as guinea-pigs in an experiment which has seen nearly all the traffic l... (more)
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