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  • Down With King George! American Liberties are Guaranteed (See Below)
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Declaration of Independence
    When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men (…)

  • Jose Bove : French Activist Detained at JFK, Deported
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    An anti-globalization activist who was sent back to France after arriving at an airport here accused the U.S. government Thursday of conspiring against his cause and trying to protect big business.
    Jose Bove, best known for ransacking a McDonald’s restaurant in France in 1999, arrived Wednesday at John F. Kennedy International Airport, planning to speak at an event sponsored by Cornell University, but was denied entry by customs officials.
    Bove was not eligible to enter the U.S. under a (…)

  • On the President’s Warrantless Wiretapping Program
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Russ Feingold
    As Prepared for Delivery From the Senate Floor
    Listen to my Statement From the Senate Floor
    Mr. President, last week the President of the United States gave his State of the Union address, where he spoke of America’s leadership in the world, and called on all of us to “lead this world toward freedom.” Again and again, he invoked the principle of freedom, and how it can transform nations, and empower people around the world.
    But, almost in the same breath, the (…)

  • The Bolivarian Revolution: A Movement of Hope and Threat
    9 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Taken from: www.valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com
    Winds of Change
    The warming winds of true democracy have been spreading from the tip of Patagonia to the shores of the Rio Grande, traversing all lands in between, with the will of the People trumping the wishes of the Empire. These winds carry within them elections of hope and fury, marked by loud voices and uncompromised ballots, devoid of charades and mirages, lacking Diebold electronic voting machines and corporate media manipulation. (…)

  • Carter Calls Gonzales Argument for Illegal Spying Ridiculous "not only bad, it’s ridiculous"
    7 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    HENDERSON, Nev. - Former President Jimmy Carter criticized the Bush administration’s domestic eavesdropping program Monday and said he believes the president has broken the law.
    "Under the Bush administration, there’s been a disgraceful and illegal decision - we’re not going to the let the judges or the Congress or anyone else know that we’re spying on the American people," Carter told reporters. "And no one knows how many innocent Americans have had their privacy violated under this (…)

  • "You know what happened to Nixon when he broke the law?"
    7 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    press conference Questioner Helen Thomas...
    Q Does the President think he should obey the law? He put his hand on the Bible twice to uphold the Constitution. Wiretapping is not legal under the circumstances without a warrant.
    MR. McCLELLAN: Well, I guess you didn’t pay attention to the Attorney General’s hearing earlier today, because he walked through very clearly the rationale behind this program. And, Helen, I think you have to ask are we a nation at war —
    Q There is no rationale to (…)

  • Unfathomed Dangers in PATRIOT Act Reauthorization
    7 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A provision in the "PATRIOT Act" creates a new federal police force with the power to violate the Bill of Rights. You might think that this cannot be true, as you have not read about it in newspapers or heard it discussed by talking heads on TV.
    Go to House Report 109-333 USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 and check it out for yourself. Sec. 605 reads:
    "There is hereby created and established a permanent police force, to be known as the ’United States Secret Service (…)

  • Homeland Security Wants Your Safe Deposit Box
    7 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by AL MARTIN
    Homeland Security has begun exercising its new power to ’identify’ the contents of your safe deposit box.
    This news should be seen in the context of the many rumors floating around on the internet.
    The so-called temporary re-authorization of the PATRIOT I and II legislation included the power, which gives the Department of Homeland Security an unprecedented power to ’identify’ assets held in citizens’ private safe deposit boxes.
    This, by the way, was in the so-called (…)

  • De la Vega on Why Rove Will Fall
    5 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Tomgram
    The President passed through his State of the Union address — ill-digested chunks of so many other speeches he’s given ("We’re writing a new chapter in the story of self-government — with women lining up to vote in Afghanistan, and millions of Iraqis marking their liberty with purple ink...) — largely untouched by the media. His two Supreme Court-changing appointments, Roberts and Alito, were triumphantly in the front row of the audience. Undoubtedly, it wasn’t a bad way for a (…)

  • Congresswomen Waters Urges the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to Investigate the Coup d’Etat in Haiti
    5 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Representative Maxine Waters
    Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Maxine Waters (CA-35) expressed her support for a petition that is being filed before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The petition seeks to establish that the Bush Administration participated in a coup d’etat to overthrow President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the democratically-elected President of Haiti, in February of 2004, and, in so doing, violated the democratic rights of the people of Haiti. The Congresswoman’s (…)