City tries to use eminent domain to knock down tavern for Catholic school's athletic fields Can Jersey City use its power of eminent domain to force a property owner to sell to a private, Catholic high school?
The question has become more heated since the U.S. Supreme Court's controversial June decision reaffirming the government's power to take property as long as the owner is compensated.
In the case of Cheng "Terry" Tan and the Golden Cicada, Jersey City must prove that the taking of the property provides for a greater public good, according to Stuart ... (more)
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High-Tech Systems Feed Change in Parking MetersTime is running out on traditional parking meters lining curbs around Southern California. And many motorists couldn't be happier.
Those pesky coin-gobblers that have tormented motorists since the first one popped up on an Oklahoma street 70 years ago are getting a makeover.
Soon, drivers with no change in their pocket may be able to pay to park by credit or ATM card. Those whose meter is about to expire may be able to get a text message on their cellphone warning t... (more)
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FEMA Sends Trucks Full Of Ice For Katrina Victims To MaineThe trucks started arriving this weekend, and they're expected to keep coming through Sunday.
City officials say they have no idea why the trucks are here, only that the city has been asked to help out with traffic problems. But the truck drivers NEWSCENTER spoke to said they went all the way down to the gulf coast with the ice -- stayed for a few days -- and then were told by FEMA they needed to drive to Maine to store it.
The truck drivers, who are from all over t... (more)
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House Approves 'Anti-Hate' Bill: Freedom Of Speech Now In Jeopardy In a surprising move, the House of Representatives on September 14, 2005 approved "The Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2005," HR2662, as an amendment to the Children'S Safety Act, HR3132. It was approved 223-199.
The Senate is expected to also approve a similar amendment within a month.
This federal legislation, orchestrated by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith will lead to creation of a vast anti-hate bureaucracy in America, similar t... (more)
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British Special Forces Caught Carrying Out Staged Terror In Iraq?: Media Blackout Shadows Why Black Op Soldiers Were ArrestedPaul Joseph Watson | September 20 2005
In another example of how the Iraqi quagmire is deliberately designed to degenerate into a chaotic abyss, British SAS were caught attempting to stage a terror attack and the media have dutifully shut up about the real questions surrounding the incident.
What is admitted is that two British soldiers in Arab garb and head dress drove a car towards a group of Iraq police and beg... (more)
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American Life Under a National ID Card“If you have done nothing wrong, then you have nothing to fear from these surveillance policies in the Patriot Act.” There it was - the one line that is continually uttered by those who are determined to turn America into the society of Big Brother. It’s the one line that will instantly bring out my own urge to kill anyone who has said it. My patience has run paper thin for such short-sighted, quivering, knee-jerk reactionaries who are willing to sacrifice our precious libertie... (more)
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Banker Gets ID Chip Implant: VeriChip ‘chips’ an investment bank CEO who wants authorities to have access to his living will in an emergencyTo help publicize a company that makes microchips that can be implanted in humans for identification purposes, a prominent San Francisco banker got “chipped” Monday so that his living will is just a scan away if he ever becomes seriously ill.
Before some 40 investors and entrepreneurs in San Francisco, John Merriman, chairman and CEO of investment firm Merriman Curhan Ford & Co., was injected with a rice-sized radio frequency identification (RFID) tag in his upper arm.... (more)
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Baker-Carter commission recommends national voter ID cardA voting reform commission which has already taken heat for playing host to sham voting rights groups run by members of the Bush-Cheney campaign has now recommended the institution of a national voter ID card.
The full recommendations of the commission, led by erstwhile Secretary of State James Baker III and former President Jimmy Carter, can be found here.
Among other major recommendations, the commission calls for voter verifiable paper trails for electronic v... (more)
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Book of Secret Files Reveals KGB Plans to Release Radioactive Material in Tokyo BayThe Soviet security service, the KGB, considered releasing radioactive material in Tokyo Bay in the late 1960s, which it hoped would be blamed on U.S. submarines and thereby damage Japanese-U.S. relations, according to The Mitrokhin Archive II, published by former KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin.
“The Mitrokhin Archive II” reveals several sabotage plans by KGB officers to sour relations between Tokyo and Washington, Japan Today wrote in a review on Tuesday. The book als... (more)
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China 'acts on forced abortions'Several Chinese health workers have reportedly been arrested or sacked over claims that they forced people to have abortions or sterilisations.
China's state-owned media said the abuses had come to light in Linyi city in the eastern province of Shandong.
US magazine Time said last week that some 7,000 people had been sterilised against their will in Shandong.
Human rights groups often accuse China of forcing sterilisations and abortions - a charge Bei... (more)
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R.I.P. Posse ComitatusIt was Representative Ron Paul of Texas who read into the Congressional Record on June 25, 1997—well before the malfeasance of George Bush, the Constitution-bashing Patriot Act, and the reckless so-called war on terror—the following: “In a police state the police are national, powerful, authoritarian. Inevitably, national governments yield to the temptation to use the military to do the heavy lifting…. [O]nce the military is used, however minor initially, the march towar... (more)
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Police forcibly break up Cindy Sheehan rallyThe New York City Police Department forcibly broke up this afternoon's rally for Cindy Sheehan, moving in as Cindy was speaking at about 3 p.m. in Union Square. The rally had been underway for about an hour, and was about to conclude as Cindy spoke following several other speakers, including a few who are traveling with her on her caravan.
As Cindy was speaking, a large platoon of police massed behind from the interior of the park, then formed a circle behind her, the speakers' ar... (more)
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Bush 41: I Still Like ClintonThirty-six hours after ex-president Bill Clinton bashed and trashed his son on everything from his handling of the Hurricane Katrina crisis to the Iraq war, former president George H.W. Bush says he still likes Clinton.
Appearing during commercial breaks on ABC's "Monday Night Football," the president's father was asked how he and Clinton managed to get along.
"I like him," Bush 41 said, despite the verbal thrashing Clinton administered to his son on ABC's "This Wee... (more)
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Government ministers 'knew of shoot-to-kill policy three years ago'Tony Blair and David Blunkett were told of a secret shift to a "shoot-to-kill" policy for suspected suicide bombers three years ago, the former Metropolitan Police Commissioner John Stevens said yesterday.
The tactic has come under fierce criticism after a Brazilian electrician, Jean Charles de Menezes, was shot dead by police marksmen who were hunting the men behind the failed London bombings of 21 July.
Anger that Parliament was not told about the policy was fuell... (more)
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Westpac to look at fingerprint devicesBANK customers could soon be using special fingerprint devices to access their internet accounts in a bid to combat fraud.
The Westpac bank says it is considering a trial of the technology within the next 18 months to two years, with customers being issued "biometric" devices for their fingerprints to allow them to gain access to their accounts.
"We are only at the very early stages of having a look at that technology," Westpac head of media David Lording said.
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Texas Department of Transportation Selects TransCore's eGo Plus Wireless RFID Communications Technology for Use In New Area Tolling Projects; TxTag Will Expand Interoperability Throughout the StateHARRISBURG, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 19, 2005--The Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) selects TransCore's eGo(R) Plus radio frequency identification (RFID) technology for use in the area's Central Texas Turnpike Program, a $2 billion transportation initiative. The multimillion-dollar contract allows for the initial release of 500,000 eGo Plus tags, branded locally as TxTag, with a total of 2 million tags over two years.
The Central Texas Turnpike Program was designed to... (more)
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Texas Civil Rights Review attacks Alex Jones, defends Plan of San Diego On Saturday Alex Jones, Director of the Texans For Freedom Group led a counter demonstration at the Texas United Latino Artists (TULA) march.
The demonstration was not against TULA per se, many of the organizers and groups participating in the TULA parade are not racist and are simply celebrating their heritage. However, some of the groups participating, like MECHA and La Raza, are overtly racist and Alex set out to expose this to the media.
The MECHA, motto is, &ld... (more)
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Carry on KillingNow at midnight all the agents, and the superhuman crew,
Come out and round up everyone that knows more than they do - Bob Dylan
Damn the blind eyes of anyone who still can't see after Basra.
How it began:
"Two persons wearing Arab uniforms opened fire at a police station in Basra. A police patrol followed the attackers and captured them to discover they we... (more) uk-basra.jpg
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FLASHBACK: The Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group (P2OG): "Launch Secret Operations Aimed At 'Stimulating Reactions' Among Terrorists"Donald Rumsfeld's plan to fight terror is to create a lot more of it. In an L.A. Times column (registration required), military analyst William Arkin describes the Pentagon's plan to create an elite secret army, equipped with a vast array of equipment and resources, using "aggressive new 'off-the-books' tactics." He calls it, "the largest expansion of covert action by the armed forces since the Vietnam era.".
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NY Times Journalist Kidnapped And Murdered In Basra By Men Claiming To Be Police OfficersNew York, September 19, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the separate kidnapping and murder of two Iraqi journalists in the past two days.
Fakher Haider of the New York Times was seized on Sunday night from his home in the al-Asmaey neighborhood of the southern city of Basra by several men claiming to be police officers. His body was found on Monday in the southwestern Al-Kiblah neighborhood with at least one gunshot to the head, according to his famil... (more)
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British Soldiers Free Two From Basra JailBASRA, Iraq (AP) - In a major show of force, British soldiers used tanks to break down the walls of the central jail in this southern city late Monday and freed two Britons, allegedly undercover commandos, who had been arrested on charges of shooting two Iraqi policemen.
About 150 Iraqi prisoners also fled as British commandos stormed inside and rescued their comrades, said Aquil Jabbar, an Iraqi television cameraman who lives across the street from the jail. Earlier Monday, demon... (more)
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British vehicles crash into Basra jailTensions between British forces and Shi'ites in southern Iraq are at a dangerous and chaotic low after British armoured forces smashed down a jail wall and freed two British undercover soldiers who had been arrested by Iraqi police.
Iraqi authorities in the southern oil city of Basra claimed that British armoured vehicles demolished part of its main jail and snatched the two men - thought to be commandos in Arab clothing who allegedly fired on Iraqi police officers.
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Shiite Militia, British Soldiers ClashBAGHDAD, Iraq -- Violent street clashes erupted Monday between Shiite militia and British soldiers in the southern city of Basra, after British tanks stormed a local jail where two of their troops were being held.
The daylong violence in Iraq's second-largest city raised troubling questions about the relationship between British forces in charge of security and their Iraqi counterparts, in what once was considered a relatively safe area of the country.
The clashes, ... (more)
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Iran blamed as militias step up Basra violenceTHE violence that erupted on the streets of Basra yesterday was the result of a simmering struggle between British forces and the increasingly powerful Shia Muslim militias active in southern Iraq.
Attention has been focused on the Sunni Muslim insurgency against US-led forces further north, yet the British have been facing a sharp rise in attacks from an increasingly sophisticated and deadly foe.
There are strong suspicions that the bloodshed is being orchestrated ... (more)
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Iraqi prison stormed by British tanks and helicoptersBritish forces in tanks and helicopters stormed an Iraqi jail tonight to rescue two service personnel who were arrested after allegedly shooting dead a local policeman and wounding another, the governor of Basra said.
The two men had been taken to the Basra jail after violence erupted earlier today in the southern Iraqi city.
Photographs of the two – thought to be special forces officers – were taken and released to the media, showing them bandaged and b... (more)
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