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American Bar Aassociation

American Bar Aassociation: "We simply cannot allow our constitutional freedoms to become a victim of the fight against terrorism. The proposed Recommendations should be adopted by the ABA House of Delegates in order to strike a proper balance between individual liberty and Executive power. "

Abu Ghraib - The Sequel - Real Video

Abu Ghraib - The Sequel - Real Video: "With the response to those Danish cartoons and the British Army beatings in Iraq, still running red-hot in the Islamic world, tonight, even uglier images from Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.

Back in 2004 when the first shocking pictures were originally leaked, the world recoiled in horror, but since then the Bush Administration has fought tooth and nail to prevent the American public from seeing any new images of the treatment of Iraqi detainees, but tonight Dateline reporter Olivia Rousset reveals new photos and videos. Despite the currently overheated international climate, we are showing them because they show the extent of the horror that occurred at Abu Ghraib. A serious warning though - some of the images you're about to see are pretty confronting and may offend some of you.

Broadcast By SBS - Australia - Dateline - 02/15/06

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More Photos; More War Crimes

More Photos; More War Crimes: "How can anyone listen to the glib palavering of the torturer-and-chief as he pontificates on a 'culture of life' that protects the unborn, but leaves others naked and bound, in a pool of blood?

The hypocrisy is nearly as offensive as the savagery.
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The Pentagon’s War on the Internet

The Pentagon’s War on the Internet : "The Pentagon has developed a comprehensive strategy for taking over the internet and controlling the free flow of information. The plan appears in a recently declassified document, “The Information Operations Roadmap”, which was provided under the FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) and revealed in an article by the BBC.

The Pentagon sees the internet in terms of a military adversary that poses a vital threat to its stated mission of global domination. This explains the confrontational language in the document which speaks of “fighting the net”; implying that the internet is the equivalent of “an enemy weapons system.'

The Defense Dept. places a high-value on controlling information. The new program illustrates their determination to establish the parameters of free speech.

The Pentagon sees information as essential in manipulating public perceptions and, thus, a crucial tool in eliciting support for unpopular policies. The recent revelations of the military placing propaganda in the foreign press demonstrate the importance that is given to co-opting public opinion. "

Petrodollars and Nuclear Weapons Proliferation: Understanding the Planned Assault on Iran

Petrodollars and Nuclear Weapons Proliferation: Understanding the Planned Assault on Iran: "It is important to understand the nature and scale of the war crimes that are being planned—and no less important to recognize that, as in the case of the Bush regime’s assault on Iraq, the pretexts being advanced to legitimize this intended aggression are entirely fraudulent. Unless the lurid fantasies of people like former Undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security and now Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton count as evidence—and Bolton’s pronouncements on the weaponry supposedly possessed by Iraq, North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela show him to be less acquainted with truth than Jean Harlow was with chastity—there is no evidence that Iran has or has ever had any nuclear weapons development program. Claims to the contrary, however loudly they may have been trumpeted by Fox News, CNN, or The New York Times, are demonstrably false."

Paul Craig Roberts: Who Will Save America?

Paul Craig Roberts: Who Will Save America?: "We have reached a point where the Bush administration is determined to totally eclipse the people. Bewitched by neoconservatives and lustful for power, the Bush administration and the Republican Party are aligning themselves firmly against the American people. Their first victims, of course, were the true conservatives. Having eliminated internal opposition, the Bush administration is now using blackmail obtained through illegal spying on American citizens to silence the media and the opposition party.

Before flinching at my assertion of blackmail, ask yourself why President Bush refuses to obey the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The purpose of the FISA court is to ensure that administrations do not spy for partisan political reasons. The warrant requirement is to ensure that a panel of independent federal judges hears a legitimate reason for the spying, thus protecting a president from the temptation to abuse the powers of government. The only reason for the Bush administration to evade the court is that the Bush administration had no legitimate reasons for its spying. This should be obvious even to a naif."

America Has Fallen to a Jacobin Coup - by Paul Craig Roberts

America Has Fallen to a Jacobin Coup - by Paul Craig Roberts: "The English-speaking world has not seen such power since the 16th and 17th centuries when the Court of Star Chamber became a political weapon used against the king's opponents and to circumvent Parliament. The Star Chamber dispensed with juries, permitted hearsay evidence, and became so reviled that 'Star Chamber' became a byword for injustice. The Long Parliament abolished the Star Chamber in 1641. In obedience to the Bush regime, the U.S. Congress resurrected it with the PATRIOT Act. Can anything be more Orwellian than identifying patriotism with the abolition of habeas corpus?"

Bush Has Crossed the Rubicon - by Paul Craig Roberts

Bush Has Crossed the Rubicon - by Paul Craig Roberts: "There is today no constitutional party. Both political parties, most constitutional lawyers, and the bar associations are willing to set aside the Constitution whenever it interferes with their agendas. Americans have forgotten the prerequisites for freedom, and those pursuing power have forgotten what it means when it falls into other hands. Americans are very close to losing their constitutional system and civil liberties. It is paradoxical that American democracy is the likely casualty of a 'war on terror' that is being justified in the name of the expansion of democracy."

Another Day in the Empire

Another Day in the Empire: "The vicious Straussian neocons will likewise deal with their enemies as they mobilize against Phase Two (attack Iran) of the Master Plan to sow chaos and murder in the Muslim Middle East. Oliver North, working diligently from the basement of the Reagan White House, did not collaborate with FEMA to set up camps for illegal immigrants, but rather official enemies. And if you believe the CIA has established its flying torture circus of sadism strictly for Muslim goat herders and taxi drivers, you should think again. For the Straussians, there is no difference between Muslims and domestic opponents of the Bush administration."

Yahoo! News Message Boards World News

Yahoo! News Message Boards World News: "Theodore Roosevelt -- no greater superpatriot -- said in 1918 during the First World War: 'To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.'

During the Second World War, within a couple of weeks after Pearl Harbor, Senator Robert A. Taft, 'Mr. Republican,' took the same line: 'I believe that there can be no doubt that criticism in time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government..... Too many people desire to suppress criticism simply because they think it will give some comfort to the enemy.... If that comfort makes the enemy feel better for a few moments, they are welcome to it as far as I am concerned because the maintenance of the right of criticism in the long run will do the country more good than it will do the enemy, and it will prevent mistakes which might otherwise occur.'"

Judge Rejects Gov't Claims on Detainees - Yahoo! News

Judge Rejects Gov't Claims on Detainees - Yahoo! News: "'The
Department of Defense has failed to come forward on this motion with anything but thin and conclusory speculation to support its claims of possible retaliation,' Rakoff wrote.

The AP filed its Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Department of Defense to have government documents related to military hearings for Guantanamo Bay detainees made public.

Dave Tomlin, the AP's general counsel, applauded the judge's decision."

Paul Craig Roberts: a Gestapo Administration

Paul Craig Roberts: a Gestapo Administration: "Compared to Spygate, Watergate was a kindergarden picnic. The Bush administration's lies, felonies, and illegalities have revealed it to be a criminal administration with a police state mentality and police state methods. Now Bush and his attorney general have gone the final step and declared Bush to be above the law. Bush aggressively mimics Hitler's claim that defense of the realm entitles him to ignore the rule of law."

STATE BY STATE GOP SCANDAL SCORECARD

STATE BY STATE GOP SCANDAL SCORECARD: "STATE BY STATE GOP SCANDAL SCORECARD"

Ralph Nader: Talkin' About the "I"-Word

Ralph Nader: Talkin' About the "I"-Word: "Yet the case for impeachment is so strong that, recently, hardly a day goes by without more disclosures which strengthen any number of impeachable offenses that could form a Congressional action under our Constitution. An illegal war, to begin with, against our Constitution which says only Congress can declare war. An illegal war under domestic laws, and international law, and conducted illegally under international conventions to which the US belongs, should cause an outcry against this small clique of outlaws committing war crimes who have hijacked our national government."

Is our president a liar?

Is our president a liar?: "
'He is President, Not A King' Russ Feingold

Was he lying then or is he lying now? Either way he is a liar.

Must watch video: ."

Sen. Robert Byrd: No President is Above the Law

Sen. Robert Byrd: No President is Above the Law: "The President claims that these powers are within his role as Commander in Chief. Make no mistake, the powers granted to the Commander in Chief are specifically those as head of the Armed Forces. These warrantless searches are conducted not against a foreign power, but against unsuspecting and unknowing American citizens. They are conducted against individuals living on American soil, not in Iraq or Afghanistan. There is nothing within the powers granted in the Commander in Chief clause that grants the President the ability to conduct clandestine surveillance of American civilians. We must not allow such groundless, foolish claims to stand."

Bush Trashes Constitution, Few Notice

Another Day in the Empire: "Before he was “elected” (appointed) in 2000, Bush “joked” about dictatorship and said it would be fine and dandy by him so long as he was the dictator. Now we have this authoritarian cretin on record trashing the Constitution and the corporate media does not take note and for obvious reason—the corporate media is owned by the same “free trade” (unhindered depredation) marauders and amoral charlatan neolibs that own the government and just about every whore (politician) in Congress."

Bush Threatens to Unleash Terrorists

Another Day in the Empire: "CIA-MI6-Mossad terrorists, the sort who fantastically plot complicated and impossible (for goat herders) terror attacks from caves in one of the most backward and poverty-stricken countries in the world. As we know, if we pay attention, all of the Bush era terror attacks—striking New York, Washington, Bali, Madrid, and London—were executed by intelligence “services,” using dim bulb Muslim patsies as fall guys in order to kindle World War IV, as envisioned by the Straussian neocons and their Israeli Zionist mentors."

Paul Craig Roberts: the Defenders of Torture

Paul Craig Roberts: the Defenders of Torture: "The reason that the Bush administration and the neocons defend torture is that, having launched an illegal invasion and created an American police state, they are desperate for 'evidence' of the terrorist threat in order to justify their illegal and unconstitutional policies.

The only way to obtain this 'evidence' is to torture people until they confess to the plots that are invented for them. A steady stream of confessed 'terrorists' serves to justify the police state that has been created. "