Major Political Changes in the USA

[DudeAsInCool]

The NY Times: Worse Than Watergate!

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/10/opinion/...ewanted=2&8hpib

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is we safer yet?

PRISONERS ESCAPE US AFGHAN BASE

Four "dangerous enemy combatants" have escaped from the main US base in Afghanistan, a US spokesman says. The men escaped from Bagram air base, north of Kabul, at about 0500 (0030 GMT), said Lt-Col Jerry O'Hara.

"We have on operation to recover four individuals who escaped from our detention facility," he said. He would not say how the men escaped...

'...The BBC's Andrew North in Kabul says as far as it is known, this is the first time anyone has escaped from an American military base inside Afghanistan since US-led forces overthrew the Taleban regime in 2001...Our correspondent says the prisoners would have had to negotiate various checkpoints to reach the perimeter. There are reports from Afghan sources that all four escaped detainees are Arabs...

'...The detention facility is said to house senior al-Qaeda suspects from other countries, including Pakistan....The Bagram facility has proved controversial.

'US soldiers there have been accused of a number of abuses of prisoners - including torture and the deaths of two inmates - sparking criticism from human rights groups and a thorough investigation by the US military....'

[DudeAsInCool]

The Press Hammers Prez's Press Secretary Over Karl Rove:

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/ne...t_id=1000977098

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[DudeAsInCool]

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton attacks President Bush, comparing him to Alfred E. Neuman

http://www.gjsentinel.com/classifieds/cont...nton_Aspen.html

"What me worry?"

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Mind Control: Military Blocks Juan Cole's Site (Juan Cole is a working professor and an expert on the Middle East, his site is Informed Comment).

read at Daily Kos...just disgusting, what are they trying to hide?

[DudeAsInCool]

washingtonpost.com

Abu Ghraib Tactics Were First Used at Guantanamo

Interrogators at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, forced a stubborn detainee to wear women's underwear on his head, confronted him with snarling military working dogs and attached a leash to his chains, according to a newly released military investigation that shows the tactics were employed there months before military police used them on detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

The techniques, approved by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld for use in interrogating Mohamed Qahtani -- the alleged "20th hijacker" in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks -- were used at Guantanamo Bay in late 2002 as part of a special interrogation plan aimed at breaking down the silent detainee.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...1302380_pf.html

[DudeAsInCool]

FBI Files on the ACLU and more - Doesnt this sound like deja vu?

http://nytimes.com/2005/07/18/politics/18protest.html

[DudeAsInCool]

Studies: Most foreign fighters didn't wage terror before Iraq war

Boston Globe

WASHINGTON - New investigations by the Saudi Arabian government and an Israeli think tank — both of which painstakingly analyzed the backgrounds and motivations of hundreds of foreigners entering Iraq to fight the United States — have found that the vast majority of them are not former terrorists and became radicalized by the war.

The studies cast serious doubt on President Bush's claim that those responsible for some of the worst violence are terrorists who seized on the opportunity to make Iraq the "central front" in a battle against the United States.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/3269420

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perspiration = terrorism!

'...This time it’s New York City transit. Our Rulers actually seem to believe that perspiring commuters have a bomb tucked in a pocket and are one damp, itchy finger away from detonating it. Worse, the City is deploying cops aboard busses to indoctrinate riders with this malarkey. The New York Post reported on Friday, July 15, "Officers will tell people to be on the lookout for anyone who is sweating on an air-conditioned bus..."

As I write, temperatures for the next three days in New York are forecast to burn through the 80's into the 90's, with such fierce humidity as puts saunas to shame...'

you just know some security soccer mom nut job's gonna be ratting out whomever. plus, the article's at Lew Rockwell.com (he's one of the 'good' republicans, he's sick to death of bush and the whitehouse bullshit)

[ASUmusicMAN]

Why i'm voting (as if I needed another reason already) for my political hero John McCain

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45342

[DudeAsInCool]

I like him, but I never know why he endorsed Bush in the last election - made no sense

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FBI Files on the ACLU and more - Doesnt this sound like deja vu?

http://nytimes.com/2005/07/18/politics/18protest.html

yep--i remember one huge protest where we sat there, watching 'them' taking notes and pictures. anyway, do you think it's due to this? (ACLU's pending lawsuit against rumsfeld and company)

transparent morons (not the ACLU).

[DudeAsInCool]

Florida 2000? John Roberts was there

Republicans railing against Democrats' "obstructionist tactics" in the Senate return again and again to a phrase they like to use: "Elections have consequences." What they mean, of course, is that George W. Bush won the White House, and to that victor go the spoils.

It's not a bad way to frame the argument, the separation of powers and the Constitution's "advice and consent" clause notwithstanding. But when it comes to Bush's nominee to the Supreme Court, there's a bit of a circular quality to it: John G. Roberts helped Bush become the victor in the first place -- and not just by giving a grand to the first Bush-Cheney campaign. As the Los Angeles Times is reporting today, Roberts traveled in the fall of 2000 to the sunny state of Florida, where he played a mostly behind-the-scenes role in helping Bush prevail in the legal fight that followed the disputed presidential election.

Republican lawyers who worked on the recount told the Times that Roberts advised Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on the role that he and the Florida Legislature could play in the fight over the recounting of ballots. "Mr. Roberts, one of the preeminent constitutional attorneys in the country, came to Florida in 2000 at his own expense and met with Gov. Bush to share what he believed the governor's responsibilities were under federal law after a presidential election and a presidential election under dispute," Jeb Bush spokesman Jacob DiPietre told the Times. "Judge Roberts was one of several experts who came to Florida to share their ideas. The governor appreciated his willingness to serve and valued his counsel."

Working on the recount is hardly disqualifying -- as the Times notes, just about every leading constitutional-law type was involved in the case somehow -- but Roberts' role does raise some questions about whether he's really the nonpartisan lawyer and jurist that his proponents would make him out to be. "What's interesting is that only now is it coming to the fore that John Roberts was part of that," People for the American Way President Ralph Neas told the Times. "He always created an impression of being above the political fray, being part of the Washington legal establishment, but not of partisan politics."

Will Roberts be asked about his role in Florida during his upcoming confirmation hearings? Almost certainly. Will he respond? Don't count on it. As Rep. Tom Feeney, a Republican from Florida, told the Times yesterday: "I don't know that there is any political benefit to answering that question."

[DudeAsInCool]

Poll: What Americans Think of George Bush

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/ind...poll/index.html

[Kooperman]

What Americans Think of George Bush

The picture tells the story....

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do we all know that they're asking congress to raise the entlistment age to 42?

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'the Bush administration is frantically blocking the release of the photographic proof of the most horrific war crimes committed in U.S. military-run prisons.

On the other hand, the Bush administration is simultaneously threatening to veto any attempts by McCain, Graham or others to establish even rudimentary rules banning such torture -- or even investigating the torture already documented.'

Bush Administration Files 11th Hour Papers Blocking the Release of Darby CD Photos and Video Of Abu Ghraib Torture

from Kos

[DudeAsInCool]

Many Layoffs Despite Good Economic Projections

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (July 22) - In a week where Alan Greenspan said he expected the U.S. economy to keep growing and Wall Street seemed generally pleased with corporate performance, workers at Eastman Kodak Co., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Kimberly-Clark Corp., among others, were warned about thousands of new layoffs.

''You get immune to it after a while,'' longtime Kodak technician John Hladis said with barely a shrug when the scythe fell once more at the Rochester-based photography company, slicing away another 10,000 employees.

But some economy watchers are suddenly concerned that this latest flurry of job cuts - a byproduct of various trends such as outsourcing, mergers, automation, changing technology and consumer demands - may foreshadow some trouble ahead.

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/business/articl...722144209990010

Gut the work force - raise the stock prices!!!! :reallymad:

[DudeAsInCool]

Congress Report: TSA Broke Privacy Laws

WASHINGTON - The Transportation Security Administration violated privacy protections by secretly collecting personal information on at least 250,000 people, congressional investigators said Friday.

The Government Accountability Officesent a letter to Congress saying the collection violated the Privacy Act, which prohibits the government from compiling information on people without their knowledge.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/a...ger_screening_4

[DudeAsInCool]

The Patriot Act Nullifies the 4th Amerndment

http://action.aclu.org/reformthepatriotact/facts.html

[DudeAsInCool]

Poll: Americans Say World War III Likely

WASHINGTON - Americans are far more likely than the Japanese to expect another world war in their lifetime, according to AP-Kyodo polling 60 years after World War II ended. Most people in both countries believe the first use of a nuclear weapon is never justified.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/a...d_war_ii_poll_4

[DudeAsInCool]

washingtonpost.com

Documents Show Roberts Influence In Reagan Era

By R. Jeffrey Smith, Jo Becker and Amy Goldstein

Washington Post Staff Writers

Wednesday, July 27, 2005; A01

Newly released documents show that John G. Roberts Jr. was a significant backstage player in the legal policy debates of the early Reagan administration, confidently debating older Justice Department officials and supplying them with arguments and information that they used to wage a bureaucratic struggle for the president's agenda.

Roberts presented a defense of bills in Congress that would have stripped the Supreme Court of jurisdiction over abortion, busing and school prayer cases; he argued for a narrow interpretation of Title IX, the landmark law that bars sex discrimination in intercollegiate athletic programs; and he even counseled his boss on how to tell the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow that the administration was cutting off federal funding for the Atlanta center that bears his name.

The documents are from Roberts's 1981-1982 tenure as a special assistant to Attorney General William French Smith. Like previously reported memos from Roberts's stint in President Ronald Reagan's White House in the mid-1980s, the documents made available from the National Archives yesterday show a man in his mid-twenties deeply engaged in the conservative restructuring of government that the new president had promised.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...2602070_pf.html

:reallymad:

[DudeAsInCool]

Majority of Americans Do Not Feel We Will Be Succesful in Iraq

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-0...ning-iraq_x.htm

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The Patriot Act Nullifies the 4th Amerndment

http://action.aclu.org/reformthepatriotact/facts.html

*tumbleweed a-rollin'*

a lonely dog barks in the distance...

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big breakthrough in fighting terrorists! change the fucking name from GWOT to GSAVE!